Assuming Quote by James Bovard

The people who, in order to enjoy the liberty which suites them, resort to the representative system, must exercise an active and constant surveillance…

— Benjamin Constant

“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

— Rand Paul

The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill…

— William O. Douglas

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy.…

— Felix Frankfurter

It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy.…

— Felix Frankfurter

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just,…

— John Winthrop

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the…

— George Washington

Political liberty in a citizen is that tranquillity of spirit which comes from the opinion each one has of his security, and in order…

— Baron de Montesquieu

You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how…

— Patrick Henry

“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly…

— Oliver Ellsworth

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