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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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Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
Judge
Lawyer
Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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Experience
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Human
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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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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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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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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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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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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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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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In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
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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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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 greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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There are no shortcuts in evolution.
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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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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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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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