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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
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Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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Men feared witches and burned women.
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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 greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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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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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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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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To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
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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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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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People fear witches, and burn women.
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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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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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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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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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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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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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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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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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