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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
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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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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In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
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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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... 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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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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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 constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.
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People fear witches, and burn women.
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There is no good writing there is only good rewriting.
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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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To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
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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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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
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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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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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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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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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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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