Abiding Quote by Gerald R. Ford

The old question still remains: Can a free people restrain crime without sacrificing fundamental liberties and a heritage of compassion?

— Gerald R. Ford

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

— John Locke

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense;…

— Frederic Bastiat

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they…

— Harry S. Truman

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves. When zealous agents of the Government arrest suspected…

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.…

— Thomas Paine

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm…

— Frederic Bastiat

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary…

— Sol Wachtler

Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or…

— Joseph Story

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

— Thomas Paine

Crime and violence are a threat to the freedom and liberty people should enjoy and to our orderly way of life.

— Priti Patel

Only law can give us freedom.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe