History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

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

Every lie is an assault on the autonomy of those we lie to.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Every command slaps liberty in the face.

Freedom is never very safe.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

For it is a truth, which the experience of ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.