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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…
• Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites…
• If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
• Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
• Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of…
• If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.
• The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
• Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the…
• To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes…
• The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

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