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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.
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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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 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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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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To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
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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 most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
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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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If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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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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People fear witches, and burn women.
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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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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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