The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. (Louis Brandeis)

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

Louis Brandeis

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