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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Topic: Argument
Source: None
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The most important office ... that of private citizen.
Topic: Citizenship
Source: None
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Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.
Topic: Crime
Source: None
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There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.
Topic: Finance
Source: None
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.
Topic: Government
Source: part of his dissent in the case "Olmstead v. United States", 277 U.S. 438, 485 (1928)
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Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
Topic: Government
Source: None
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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Topic: History
Source: None
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Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good
or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is
contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds
contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto
himself; it invites anarchy.
Topic: Law
Source: part of his dissent in the case "Olmstead v. United States", 277 U.S. 438, 485 (1928)
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
Topic: Liberty
Source: None
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The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
Topic: Miracles
Source: None
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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Privacy is the right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
Topic: Privacy
Source: None
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It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.
Topic: Production
Source: None
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Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free
speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is
the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational
fears.
Topic: Speech
Source: in the case of "Whitney v. California"
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It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
Topic: State
Source: None
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Topic: Vigilance
Source: None
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