“True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of men such as Brandeis.”

— Louis Brandeis

Albert Einstein, statement sent to the Boston journal The Jewish Advocate on 1931-10-19 on the occasion of Justice Brandeis' seventy-fifth birthday, quoted in Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, eds., Albert Einstein: The Human Side (Princeton University Press, 1981), ISBN 0-691-02368-9, p. 85.

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American Supreme Court Justice 1856–1941

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