It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government.

A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party. Hence it is, that democracies have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it.

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.