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.We suffer a surfeit of zeal and a deficit of real comprehension. Watch out when zeal for action outstrips comprehension.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Well-meaning but without understanding
From Justice Louis Brandeis dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
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