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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
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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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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... 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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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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Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.
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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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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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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant
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People fear witches, and burn women.
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