They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people.
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.