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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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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.
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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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In business, the earning of profit is something more than an incident of success. It is an essential condition of success. It is an essential condition of success because the continued absence of profit itself spells failure.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
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The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.
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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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Men feared witches and burned women.
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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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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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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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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 by revolution were not cowards.
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In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen
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