The
real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among
them bounties, donations and benefits.
Plutarch
Those
that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
The
price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
When
the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the
people fear the government, there is tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
I
believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the
people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent
and sudden usurpations.
James Madison (1751-1836)
Those
who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under
the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
The
shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep
thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the
same act as the destroyer of liberty.