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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. --Thomas Macaulay |
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. --Edmund Burke |
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century. --Baron de Montesquieu |
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Without freedom, no one really has a name. --Milton Acorda |
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When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory but new Masters. --George Savile |
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. --Louis D. Brandeis |
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I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. --Unknown |
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. --Albert Camus |
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power. --Daniel Webster |
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. --Edward R. Murrow |
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. --Theodore Roosevelt |
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