Louis D. Brandeis

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Louis Dembitz Brandeis (; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

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Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

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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 cannot have both.

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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

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There are no shortcuts in evolution.

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If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

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Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

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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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