It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
I, for one, will remain constantly vigilant of a government that admits its transgressions of liberty only when they are caught lying.
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