Louis D. Brandeis

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What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

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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 can't have both.

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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.

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There are no shortcuts in evolution.

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

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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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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

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