Checking in.............................

..............................with Louis Brandeis:

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

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

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

We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

At the foundation of our civil liberty lies the principle which denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.

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.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.