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in the exercise of this high power, we must be ever on our guard, lest we erect our prejudices into legal principles
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Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.
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Denial of the right to experiment may be fraught with serious consequences to the nation.
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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.
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Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.
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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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If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
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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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it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government