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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."

[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]”
― Louis D. Brandeis

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“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

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