Freedom Quote by Louis D. Brandeis

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. —Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States (1928)”

— Jane Mayer

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are…

— Louis D. Brandeis

“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.”

— James Madison

“Now, even though it be neither necessity nor caprice, history, for the authentic reactionary, is not, for all that, an interior dialectic of the…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

It is a melancholy reflection that liberty should be equally exposed to danger whether the government have too much power or too little power…

— James Madison

The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Men love liberty because it protects them from control and humiliation from others, and thus affords them the possibility of dignity. They loathe liberty…

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

“liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. . . . [T]he former rather than the latter is…

— Ron Chernow

“A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of…

— Alexander Hamilton

“On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see that yawning…

— Anonymous