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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.

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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Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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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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Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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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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There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.
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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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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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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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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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The makers of our Constitution . . . conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone - the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
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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 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 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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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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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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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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