“The history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made have been born in struggle...if there is no struggle there is no progress.  Those who profess to favor Freedom and yet depreciate agitation are [those] who want crops without plowing up the ground....Power concedes nothing without demand.  It never did and it never will.”

"For me, a necktie is like a dog leash -- both symbolize a limit on freedom. Why else does Nelson Mandela never wear one?"
-Wouter van Winden, a businessman in the central Dutch city of Delft

"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." Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v US (1928)

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