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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
Louis D. Brandeis
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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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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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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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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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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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There is no good writing there is only good rewriting.
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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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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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Men feared witches and burned women.
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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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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... 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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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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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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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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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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Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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