American - Judge | November 13, 1856 - October 5, 1941
I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Louis D. Brandeis
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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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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.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
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When those of Jewish blood exhibit moral or intellectual superiority, genius or special talent, we feel pride in them, even if they have abjured the faith like Spinoza, Marx, Disraeli or Heine. Despite the meditations of pundits or the decrees of council, our own instincts and acts, and those of others, have defined for us the term 'Jew.'
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In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
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Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism. Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent.
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A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state and of his city; for being loyal to his family and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge.
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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.
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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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