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Wednesday, November 25. 2009

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"The makers of the Constitution conferred, as against the government, the Right to be left alone; the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men.”


United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States (1928). h/t, reader.

Posted by Bird Dog in Quotidian Quotable Quote (QQQ) at 12:01 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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In those days you always had the option of leaving to go settle in another part of the country. We do not have that choice now, and will, unfortunately, succumb to a government's avaricious appetite to accumulate power. It really does not matter who gets elected, government just grows and grows, until one day it will have consumed its populace.
#1 tlagj on 2009-11-25 13:03 (Reply)
This is the foundation of the right of liberty or the right of privacy. As a Libertarian, I must support this right even when I disapprove of its use -- adultery, prositution and non-medical use of drugs come to mind. I also support this right for things I approve of: marriage between adults who choose marriage, adoption by responsible and loving people, starting a business, traveling as I wish.
Abortion remains the toughest area. It is the only situation I know of where the rights of one, the unborn, conflict so utterly with the rights of another, the mother. It is too flip to say either "every woman should be glad to bear her child" or "every pregnancy is a choice."
#2 Geoff Brown on 2009-11-27 12:17 (Reply)

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