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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
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
Independence
Revolution
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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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Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
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Men feared witches and burned women.
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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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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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To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.
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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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... 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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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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