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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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Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
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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 most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private 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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The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
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It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.
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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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... 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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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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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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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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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 best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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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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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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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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