"Icebound" wrote in
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Snipola of EXCELLENT post

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men
of zeal,
well meaning but without understanding."
- Justice Louis Brandeis (1928)

Don't forget Benjamin Franklin...

"He that would give up essential liberty for a little security
deserve neither liberty nor security."


or Thomas B. Reed...

"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the
evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."


or Thomas Jefferson...

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too
much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."


or Harlan Carter...

"Can our form of government, our system of justice, survive if
one can be denied a freedom because he might abuse it?"


or Thomas Paine...

"Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like
men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."


or Kwame Nkrumah (founder of Ghana)...

"We prefer self-government with danger, to servitude with
tranquillity."


or George Bernard Shaw...

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."


Brian
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