Authority Quote by Alexander Hamilton

It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that…

— Thomas Jefferson

A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine…

— Oliver Ellsworth

The power of the people pervading the proposed system, together with the strong confederation of the states, will form an adequate security against every…

— John Dickinson

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security…

— James Madison

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

— Paul Singer

“security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us,…

— Thomas Paine

It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.

— Ron Paul

“Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.”

— Alexander Hamilton

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And yet even among the friends of liberty, many people are deceived into believing that government can make them safe from all harm, provide…

— Ron Paul

We are bound to maintain public liberty, and, by the example of our own systems, to convince the world that order and law, religion…

— Daniel Webster

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude…

— Alexander Hamilton