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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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... 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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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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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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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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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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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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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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Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
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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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If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
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Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
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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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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
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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 logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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