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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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There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.
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The most important thing we do is not doing.
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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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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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I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
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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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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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It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
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We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force.
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