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.

Louis D. Brandeis
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  2. The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use."~ Louis D. Brandeis

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

  4. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced sil

  5. The most important office is that of private citizen.

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