Freedom Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

There is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.

— Henry Middleton

If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to…

— William Blackstone

When a judge goes beyond [his proper function] and reads entirely new values into the Constitution, values the framers and ratifiers did not put…

— Robert Bork

But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to the judicious…

— Sarah Fielding

In all tyrannical governments the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the…

— William Blackstone

No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin…

— James Henley Thornwell

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

— Anonymous

It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can…

— Alexander Hamilton

It does so happen to be the case that if the freedom of the people of this country - and especially the rights of…

— Michael Foot

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty;…

— Anonymous

Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right to freedom. And if…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles…

— Thomas Paine