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Louis D. Brandeis
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Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
Judge
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Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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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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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
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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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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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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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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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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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There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
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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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... 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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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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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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People fear witches, and burn women.
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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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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To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
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