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

All who have ever written on government are unanimous, that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and th…

You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

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