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All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the bill of rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. we do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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All Of Us In This Country Give

Eleanor Roosevelt
All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the bill of rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. we do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.
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