"The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people."

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Source : Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law (2006). “Brandeis at 150: the Louisville perspective : a sesquicentennial commemoration”

Louis D. Brandeis

#Hero Quotes #People Quotes #Menace Quotes

“Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.”
“being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.”
“The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace. Grace in the heart as certainly improves and advances, as a tree thrives in a kindly and well watered soil.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 294. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
“I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.”
“But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.”
“Unfortunately, gambling and winning don't often go hand-in-hand.”
“Ester asked why people are sad. "Thatâ€™s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”
“A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.”

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