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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

The most important office ... that of private citizen.

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law.

There is no such thing as an innocent purchaser of stocks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.

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.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Privacy is the right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.

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.

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.

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.

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.