“ Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ”
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“ Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment. ”
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“ Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ”
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“ Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ”
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“ Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ”
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“ Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ”
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“ The right to be alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. ”
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“ Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. ”
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“ Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values. ”
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“ Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. ”
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“ In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. ”
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“ Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ”
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“ In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. ”
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“ 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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“ To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution. ”
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“ In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. ”
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“ 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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“ Those who won our independence… valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. ”
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“ Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. ”
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“ We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. ”
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“ The right to be alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. ”
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“ No one can really pull you up very high — you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains. ”
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“ America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. ”
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“ 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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“ The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal — well-meaning but without understanding. ”
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