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

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• Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent
  Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion...
• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal
  well-meaning but without understanding. ...
• If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies
  to avert the evil by the processes of education, the...
• The most important office ... that of a private citizen
  Justice Louis D. Brandeis (1856...
• Our government...teaches the whole people by its example
  If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds...
• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance
  is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense...
• A small difference of opinion on the U.S. Supreme Court in 'Texas v
  Justice William J. Brennan, writing for the majority...
• It is most distressing to us to be the agents whereby our erring fellow creatures are deprived of that liberty which is so dear to us all
  but we should have thought of that before we joined...