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

"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."

"I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live."

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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

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

"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."
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