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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
Judge
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Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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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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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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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.
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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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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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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
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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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If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
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Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
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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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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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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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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 you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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