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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
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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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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It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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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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