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Louis D. Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (13 November 1856 - 5 October 1941) was an American litigator, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief in Muller v. Oregon. In addition, he helped lead the American Zionist movement

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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.

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

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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.

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Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

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Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

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Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

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The makers of our constitution undertook to secure conditions favorable to the pursuit of happiness... They sought to protect Americans in their beliefs, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone -- the most comprehensive of the rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

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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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