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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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The most important thing we do is not doing.
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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
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If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
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The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.
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Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.
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Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
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There is no good writing there is only good rewriting.
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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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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
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... fear breeds repression that repression breeds hate that hate menaces stable government that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.
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Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants electric light the most efficient policeman.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.
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