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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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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 we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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... fear breeds repression that repression breeds hate that hate menaces stable government that the path of safety lies in the opportunity to discuss freely supposed grievances and proposed remedies and that the fitting remedy for evil counsels is good ones.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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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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Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant
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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 most important thing we do is not doing.
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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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Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
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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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Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.
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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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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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Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
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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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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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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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