“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.”
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Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
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.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
