As an attorney, Louis D. Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) fought tirelessly on behalf of progressive causes and against public corruption, powerful corporations and business monopolies. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson nominated him for the U.S. Supreme Court — a nomination that anti-Semites and big-business interests strongly opposed. Once on the Supreme Court, he wrote ground-breaking opinions defending freedom of speech and the right to privacy, among many other things. Brandeis stepped down from the court in 1939, two years before his death.
Quote: “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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