Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Earthly possessions dazzle our eyes and delude us into thinking that they can provide security and freedom from anxiety. Yet all the time they are the very source of anxiety.
You've just got to do what you think is right, and just make the decisions based upon noble causes. And a noble cause is peace and security and freedom.
Everyone's goals are the same with very small differences. I mean, the goal of a socialist and the goal of a libertarian are exactly the same. The goals are happiness and security and freedom, and you balance those.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!
We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame them to their ruin. In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security and a comfortable life; and they lost all-comfort and security and freedom.
People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.