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In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
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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Citizens
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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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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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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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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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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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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
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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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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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People fear witches, and burn women.
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The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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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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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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