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"Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."

"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered."

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

"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."

"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution."

"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."

"The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles."
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