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- The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address to the New York Press Club, September 9, 1912
- It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order, and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these value, we do so at our peril.
- J. William Fulbright (1905 - ), Remarks in the Senate, June 29, 1961
- When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, September 9, 1912
- There is no conflict between liberty and safety. We will have both or neither.
- Ramsey Clark
- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis
- Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
- Anonymous
- It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
- M. Grundler
- Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
- Henry M. Robert
- Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are 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.
- Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
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