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People fear witches, and burn women.
Louis D. Brandeis
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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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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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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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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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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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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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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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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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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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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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It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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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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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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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
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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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