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Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
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Louisville
Kentucky
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In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
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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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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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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 most important thing we do is not doing.
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There is no good writing there is only good rewriting.
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
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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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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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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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Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
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In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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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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At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.
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What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private 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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If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
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