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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.

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  Wisdom, People, Doe

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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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• The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

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  Reality, Yield, Logic

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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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• 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 progress of science in furnishing the government with means of espionage is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the psychic and related sciences may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the liberty of every man in the hands of every petty officer' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Home, Government, Secret

  "Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438". Dissenting opinion, 1928.

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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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• Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.

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  Hate, Government, Menace

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• There is no great writing, only great rewriting.

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  Writing, Rewriting, Great Writing

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

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  Work, Long, Enough

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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.

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  Business, Failure, Essentials

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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.

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  Separation, Wealth, Ownership

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

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

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  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.

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  Men, Independence, Finals

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

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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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• 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.

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  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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• Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

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  Neutrality, Sin, Belligerence

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• Sunshine is the best disinfectant

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  Sunshine, Investing

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• Anyone who critically analyzes a business learns this: that the success or failure of an enterprise depends usually upon one man.

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  Men, Enterprise, Success Or Failure

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Fear, Believe

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