The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.
The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.