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Louis D. Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (/ˈbrændaɪs/; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jewish immigrant parents from Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), who raised him in a secular home. He attended Harvard Law School, graduating at the age of twenty with what is widely rumored as the highest grade average in the law school's history. Brandeis settled in Boston, where he founded a law firm (that is still in practice today as Nutter McClennen & Fish) and became a recognized lawyer through his work on progressive social causes.

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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.

Effective, Government, Mean, Money, Possible, Subtler

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

Flame, Flames, Individual, Spark, Sparks

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Peace, Freedom, War, Lurk, Insidious, Meaning

. . . 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.

Good, Hate, Lying, Opportunity, Remedies, Repression

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

Light, Mind, Minds, Reason, School

Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

Bargain, Economic Inequality, Industrial, Play, Strong, Unions

Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. The parties to the labor contract must be nearly equal in strength if justice is to be worked out, and this means that the workers must be organized and that their organizations must be recognized by employers as a condition precedent to industrial peace.

Employers, Mean, Party, Peace, Strong, Workers

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

Hard Life, Life, Life Is Hard, Motivational, Recognize, Things

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.

Country, Democracy, Hands, Power, Wisdom

It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Censorship In Books, Freedom Of Speech, Function, Irrational, Men, Speech

At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

Citizen, Denies, Government, Law, Lying, Position

Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant

Disinfectant, Greatest, Sunshine

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.

Country, Disagrees, Freedom, Loyalty, Same, Stamp

The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath.

Long, Undermine, Unions, Wages, Working

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day's work.

Work, Long, Enough, Early, Rise

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

Hard, Idea, Ideas, Life, World

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.

Change, Government, Law, Law Courts, Man, Men

The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.

Fill, House, Office, Political, Private

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

Civilized, Left, Libertarian, Liberty, Men, Valued

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

Believe, Fear, Order, Prayer, Problems

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