Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1572
AUTHOR:
Louis Dembitz Brandeis (18561941)
QUOTATION:
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 policeman.
ATTRIBUTION:
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS, What Publicity Can Do, Other Peoples Money, chapter 5, p. 92 (1932). First published in Harpers Weekly, December 20, 1913.