Louis D. Brandeis Quotes - Page 3

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

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Long, Wages, Unions

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• The Jews are a Distinct Nationality regardless of where they live, their station in life or their shades of belief, and his clarion call to all the Jews in the world to 'organize, organize, organize,' until every Jew in America must stand up and be counted - counted with us - or prove himself, wittingly or unwittingly, of the few who are against their own people.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  America, People, Shade

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• I used to oppose women's suffrage and I've come to support it because these women have convinced me that we need full gender equality for full democratic participation.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Support, Needs, Women's Suffrage

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, People, Doe

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• To be good Americans, we must be better Jews, and to be better Jews, we must become Zionists.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Be Good, Zionist, Jew

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

  Louis D. Brandeis

  School, Light, Mind

  Louis D. Brandeis (2009). “Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Character, Order, Political

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• There are no shortcuts in evolution.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Health, Science, Inspire

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

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Strong, Play, Economic Inequality

  "The Curse of Bigness: Miscellaneous Papers of Louis D. Brandeis". Book by Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Clarence Martin Lewis, 1965.

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• Men feared witches and burned women.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Witch, Burned

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• Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Separation, Wealth, Ownership

  Dissent, Liggett Co. v. Lee, 288 U.S. 517, 1933.

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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.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Mean, Government, Order

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Hate, Government, Menace

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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.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Business, Failure, Essentials

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• Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Neutrality, Sin, Belligerence

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• History is not life, but since only life makes history, the union of the two is obvious.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Two, Unions, Obvious

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• Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Independence, Finals

  Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 1927.

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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.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Money, Mean, Government

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• There is no good writing; there is only good rewriting.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Writing, Rewriting, Good Writing

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• Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Men, Afterlife, Long

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• The tax-exempt privilege is a feature always reflected in the market price of [municipal] bonds. The investor pays for it.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Pay, Privilege, Taxes

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• I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Thinking, Giving, Human Experience

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

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Life, Ideas, World

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• No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Opportunity, Evil, Justice

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• Sunshine is the best disinfectant

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Sunshine, Investing

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