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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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If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
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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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Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
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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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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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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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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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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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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
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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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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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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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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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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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It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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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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