Assuming Quote by William Rehnquist

[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.

— Samuel Williams

[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.

— Algernon Sidney

[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values…

— Anonymous

When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many…

— Andrew Johnson

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

— Margaret Thatcher

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the…

— Mary McCarthy

The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of…

— Alexander Hamilton

We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding…

— Richard Mitchell

“State can become threat to individual life, cause of individual liberty.”

— Kaushik

There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have…

— Floyd Abrams