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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation.

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.

God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.

Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'