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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
Judge
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Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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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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To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
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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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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
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There is no good writing there is only good rewriting.
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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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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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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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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
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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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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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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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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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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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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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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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