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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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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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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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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It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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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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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 dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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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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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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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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Men feared witches and burned women.
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The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.
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