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Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
Judge
Lawyer
Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.
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In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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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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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
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People fear witches, and burn women.
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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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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 most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
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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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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 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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Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
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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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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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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 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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There are no shortcuts in evolution.
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