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 in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill, is that of private citizen.
The greatest factors making for communism, socialism or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital. The talk of the agitator does not advance socialism one step. The great captains of industry and finance... are the chief makers of socialism.
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.
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