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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 evilminded rulers....
• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
  -- Justice Louis D. Brandei...
• If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.
  -- US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandei...
• The most important office ... that of a private citizen. -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
• Our government...teaches the whole people by its example.
  If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law...
• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.
  -- Constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840...
• A small difference of opinion on the U.S. Supreme Court in 'Texas v.
  -- Justice William J. Brennan, writing for the majority....