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To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Louis D. Brandeis
Age: 84 †
Born: 1856
Born: November 13
Died: 1941
Died: October 5
Judge
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Louisville
Kentucky
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
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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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If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.
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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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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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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.
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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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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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Repression breeds hate hate menaces stable government.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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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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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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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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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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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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There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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There is no good writing there is only good rewriting.
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
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