Our Founders had a healthy respect for the threat fear poses to reason. They knew that, under the right circumstances, fear can trigger the temptation to surrender freedom to a demagogue promising strength and security in return. They worried that when fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division. As Justice Louis D.Brandeis later wrote: 'Men feared witches and burnt women.'
-- Al Gore, The Assault on Reason, Chapter One, The Politics of Fear, pg. 23, 2007
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