Quote#Politics & Power
What I have desired to do is to make the people of Boston realize…
Quote byLouis Brandeis · 1856–1941
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Statement to a reporter as in the Boston Record, 14 April 1903. (quoted in Alpheus Thomas Mason, Brandeis: A Free Man's Life (1946), p. 122.).
English (original)
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 duties of the office of private citizen cannot under a republican form of government be neglected without serious injury to the public.
— Louis Brandeis
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