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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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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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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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It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.
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Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
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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.
Louis D. Brandeis
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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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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People fear witches, and burn women.
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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
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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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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.
Louis D. Brandeis
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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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
Louis D. Brandeis
There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
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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.
Louis D. Brandeis
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.
Louis D. Brandeis
