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Brandeis retired from the Court on Feb. 13, 1939, and died in Washington on Oct. 5, 1941.
Brandeis retired from the Court on Feb. 13, 1939, and died in Washington on Oct. 5, 1941.
==Notes==
==Quotes==
* "The bow must be strung and unstrung . . . there must be time also for the [[meditation|unconscious thinking]] which comes to the busy man in his play."
** Letter to William Harrison Dunbar (February 2, 1893), ''reprinted in'' ''Letters of Louis D. Brandeis Volume I'' (1870–1907): Urban Reformer 109 (Melvin I. Urovsky & David W. Levy, eds., [[State University of New York]] Press 1971).
* "The intensity and complexity of life, attendant upon advancing civilization, have rendered necessary some retreat from the world . . . ."
** "The Right to [[Privacy]]," 4 Harvard L. Rev. 193, 196 (1890).
* "When a man feels that he cannot leave his [[work]], it is a sure sign of an impending collapse."
** Letter to Alfred Brandeis (March 8, 1897), ''reprinted in'' ''Letters of Louis D. Brandeis Volume I'' 127 (Melvin I. Urovsky & David W. Levy, eds., State University of New York Press 1971).
* "What I have desired to do is to make the people of [[Boston]] realize that the most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private [[citizen]]. The [[duty|duties]] of the office of private citizen cannot under a [[republican]] form of [[limited government|government]] be neglected without serious injury to the public."
** Statement to a reporter in the ''Boston Record'', 14 April 1903. (quoted in Alpheus Thomas Mason, ''Brandeis: A Free Man's Life'' (1946), p. 122.)<!-- An original clipping of this article can be found in the Louis Brandeis Archives at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law. -->
** Commonly paraphrased as "The most important office is that of the private citizen" or "The most important political office is that of the private citizen", and sometimes mis-attributed to his dissenting opinion in ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]''.
* Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. '''Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient [[police]]man.'''
** ''Other People's Money—and How Bankers Use It'' (1914).
* "It is, as a rule, far more important how men pursue their occupation than what the occupation is which they select."
** ''The Opportunity in the Law'', 39 American Law Review 555, 555 (1905).
* "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. . . . For only through the ennobling effect of its strivings can we develop the best that is in us and give to this country the full benefit of our great inheritance."
** ''The [[Jewish]] Problem And How to Solve It'' (1915).
* "We must make our choice. We may have [[democracy]], or we may have [[elitism|wealth concentrated in the hands of a few]], but we can't have both."
** As quoted by Raymond Lonergan in ''Mr. Justice Brandeis, Great American'' (1941), p. 42.
* "At the foundation of our [[civil liberties|civil liberty]] lies the principle which denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the [[citizen]]."
** Dissent, ''[[Burdeau v. McDowell]]'', 256 U.S. 465, 477 (1921).
* "[O]nly through participation by the many in the responsibilities and determinations of [[business]] can [[American]]s secure the [[moral]] and intellectual development which is essential to the maintenance of [[liberty]]."
** Dissent, ''[[Liggett Co. v. Lee]]'', 288 U.S. 517 (1933), at 580.
* "[[Founding Fathers|Those who won our independence]] believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties, and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued [[liberty]] both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of [[happiness]] and [[courage]] to be the secret of liberty. They believed that freedom to think as you will and [[First Amendment|to speak as you think]] are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth; that without [[free speech]] and assembly discussion would be futile; that with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against the dissemination of noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to [[freedom]] is an inert people; that public discussion is a [[political]] [[duty]]; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government."
** Concurring, ''[[Whitney v. California]]'', 274 U.S. 357, 375 (1927), at 375. In this case, in which the Court upheld a [[California]] [[anti-Communist]] statute, Brandeis, writing in a concurrence joined by Justice [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]], concurred in the judgment but not in the reasoning. ''Whitney'' was later overruled (with the later Court adopting Brandeis's reasoning) in ''[[Brandenburg v. Ohio|Brandenburg v. Ohio]]'', 395 U.S. 444 (1969).
* "Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared [[witches]] and burnt [[women]]. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears."
** Concurring, ''Whitney v. California'', 274 U.S. 357, 376 (1927).
* "The progress of [[science]] in furnishing the [[big government|government]] with means of [[espionage]] is not likely to stop with wire tapping. Ways may some day be developed by which the [[Police state|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 [[tyrant|petty officer]]' was said by James Otis of much lesser intrusions than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed '[[subversive]] of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the [[Constitution]] affords no protection against such invasions of [[Fourth Amendment|individual security]]?"
** Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
==See Also==
* [[Anti-Communist]]
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