"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."
-Louis D. Brandeis
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"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.“
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