There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer… — James Madison Copy Share Image
These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest;… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
To watch the progress of such endeavors is the office of a free press. To give us early alarm and put us… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state. — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance,… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Do the people of this land…desire to preserve those [liberties] protected by the First Amendment… If so, let them withstand all beginnings… — George Sutherland Copy Share Image
“These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
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