Commonly attributed to Louis Brandeis, this is prob'ly more like something he said once in passing, or is otherwise apocryphal.
It's also more than a little possible that the thing is from a speech by Ralph Nader when he was running his vanity project "campaign for president" in 2000.
Whatever - and in keeping with modern cyber-lore theory - it rings true as fuck, so why not post it?
We must make a choice in this country. We may have democracy, or we may have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few - but we may not have both.
Here's another one:
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal - well meaning but without understanding.
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