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it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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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 let alone--the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men