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Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
Judge
Lawyer
Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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Openness
Sunlight
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.
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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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The most important thing we do is not doing.
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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
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Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.
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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law it invites every man to become a law unto himself it invites anarchy.
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To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
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The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.
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The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
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Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
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It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part
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