Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
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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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Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
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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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The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
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