America Quote by James Madison

Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.

— Algernon Sidney

“Only the most ingeniously optimistic, the most wilfully blind to the facts of history and psychology, can believe that paper guarantees of liberty -…

— Aldous Huxley

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...”

— John Adams

“By its durability this settlement proved that conservative liberty is an oxymoron, not a contradiction in terms.”

— Timothy C.W. Blanning

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

— Milton Friedman

“If legislation is truly necessary, one would expect the government to be able to provide proof of this beyond anecdote and speculation. Such proof…

— Randy E. Barnett

absolute liberty ... tends to corrupt absolutely.

— Gertrude Himmelfarb

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

— John Adams

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

“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness,…

— Edmund Burke

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

— Edmund Burke

“The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.’3”

— Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly