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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
Rewriting
Great
Writing

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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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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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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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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
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Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant
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There are no shortcuts in evolution.
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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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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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People fear witches, and burn women.
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The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.
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If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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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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In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
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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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