A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
This young century will be liberty's century.
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy.