No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session
Unknown
The tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants
Thomas Jefferson
That no free government, or the blessing of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by frequent recurrence to fundamental principles
George Mason
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty
John Adams
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms
Henry Louis Mencken
As government expands, liberty contracts
Ronald Reagan
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution
Ronald Reagan
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty
Charles Evans Hughes
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
Plato
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it
Nadia Boulanger
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost
Aristotle
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is 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.
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
Thurgood Marshall
The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt