"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 the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."

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Source : Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

Louis D. Brandeis

#Freedom Quotes #Men Quotes #Evil Quotes

“In olden times, when wishing still helped...”
“The rest of the world cannot be expected to regulate its life by a clock which is always slow.”
“In studying ourselves, we find the harmony that is our total existence. We do not make harmony. We do not achieve it or gain it. It is there all the time. Here we are, in the midst of this perfect way, and our practice is simply to realize it and then to actualize it in our everyday life.”

Source : John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.”
“I want all of my films to belong to me.”
“If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.”
“After I quote unquote came out as a Republican, one of my dearest gay friends said to me, 'You've got to go on a T.V. show and tell everyone you like gay people.' I was like, 'Why?' He was like, 'Because you're a Republican.' I was like, 'I'm sorry who's stereotyping who?'”

Source : "QA: Angie Harmon on Raising Three Girls and 'Coming Out' as a Republican in Hollywood". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2011.
“You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.”

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