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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
Lawyer
Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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Constitution
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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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People fear witches, and burn women.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
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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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Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants electric light the most efficient policeman.
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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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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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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 most important thing we do is not doing.
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