"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent" — Louis Dembitz Brandeis

Peace is liberty in tranquillity

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

: I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum

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