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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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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
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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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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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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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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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In a democracy, the most important office is the office of 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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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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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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Men feared witches and burned women.
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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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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant
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The most important thing we do is not doing.
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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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It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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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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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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