“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.”
-- Louis D. Brandeis
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Fortify Democracy
“Authoritarianism cannot be harnessed to fortify democracy any more than wolves can be taught to guard sheep.”
---John Hayward
---John Hayward
Secure Liberty
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.”
--Thomas Paine
--Thomas Paine
World of Small Men
“The world is full of men who despise you, fear your ambition, and jealously guard their shrinking realms of power.”
--Robert Greene
--Robert Greene
Time Like Dimonds
“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them, and their value will never be known. Improve them, and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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