"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 insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Louis Brandeis, dissenting opinion in Olmstead v. United States, 1927
Quoted in The Constitution of Liberty, F.A. Hayek
University of Chicago Press, 1960
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
QOTD 07/01/09
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