Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
Our Founders warned against this. They said don't... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.
This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Liberty is worth paying for.
Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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.