The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected.
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
The precondition to freedom is security.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.
Freedom is never given; it is won.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.