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Louis D. Brandeis

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What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice. - Louis D. Brandeis
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During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism. - Louis D. Brandeis
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Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. - Louis D. 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. - Louis D. Brandeis
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Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. - Louis D. Brandeis
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There are no shortcuts in evolution. - Louis D. Brandeis
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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. - Louis D. Brandeis
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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. - Louis D. Brandeis
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The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. - Louis D. Brandeis
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. - Louis D. Brandeis
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If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis
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America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. - Louis D. Brandeis
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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. - Louis D. Brandeis
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. - Louis D. Brandeis
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen. - Louis D. Brandeis
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis
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Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. - Louis D. Brandeis
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. - Louis D. Brandeis
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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. - Louis D. Brandeis
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