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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

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Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 1928

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Louis D. Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis (13 November 1856 - 5 October 1941) was an American litigator, Supreme Court Justice, advocate of privacy, and developer of the Brandeis Brief in Muller v. Oregon. In addition, he helped lead the American Zionist movement

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