Affected Quote by Robert Walpole

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

— Miguel de Cervantes

“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

Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

— William Bradford

“liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion”

— Anonymous

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

— Louis D. Brandeis

“A liberty to follow my own will in all things where that rule prescribes not, not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown,…

— John Locke

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

— Billy Sunday

“The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness…

— James Madison

“the common force cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, the liberty, or the property of individuals or of classes. For”

— Frédéric Bastiat

No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from…

— Frederick Douglass

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

— Learned Hand