[N]ot a day passes without producing some uneasy discussion of supposed social decrepitude; - falling off of the birth rate; - decline of rural population; - lower of army standards; - multiplication of suicides; - increase of insanity or idiocy, - of cancer, - of tuberculosis; - signs of nervous exhaustion, - of enfeebled vitality, - "habits" of alcoholism and drugs, - failure of eye-sight in the young, - and so on, without end, coupled with suggestions for correcting these evils.
ADAMS, HENRY, Chapter 1, A Letter to American Teachers of History (1910), published in The Degradation of the Democratic DogmaIt is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
JACKSON, U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ROBERT H., American Communications Assn. v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442-443 (1950)