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The most important thing we do is not doing.

Louis D. Brandeis

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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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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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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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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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Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.
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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
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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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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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Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
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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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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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The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
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The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.
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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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It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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If you would venture, let your mind be bold . . . not reckless but bold.
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There is no good writing there is only good rewriting.
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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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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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