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 of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk... Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens: Report - Page 32by United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Secretary's Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems - 1973 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
| Irving Fisher, Herbert Bruce Brougham - Alcoholism - 1928 - 398 pages
...court of what is whispered in the closet. "The greatest dangers to liberty," Justice Brandeis added, "lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding. " Justice Holmes in his dissenting opinion remarked, "We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee - 1933 - 132 pages
...goes on to say : * * * and it is also immaterial that the intrusion was in aid of law enforcement. Experience should teach us to be most on our guard...men of zeal, wellmeaning but without understanding. It is desirable that criminals should be detected, and to that end that all available evidence should... | |
| Labor laws and legislation - 1944 - 1532 pages
...obsta principiis." "Experience should teach us," it was said in another case, "to be most on our^guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes...of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." Olmxtead v. United States, (dissent), 277 U. Si 471, 479. A little water, trickling here and there-... | |
| New Thought - 1952 - 1054 pages
...sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. Louis Brandeis: Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Spanish Proverb: Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. Woodrow Wilson: Character is a by-product;... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee - 1949 - 722 pages
...Mr. Brandeis, in the case of Olmstedd v. United States, 1928. Mr. Brandeis said : Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. I suggest most strongly to the committee that you refuse to embark the Nation on this program at this... | |
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