It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
Felix Frankfurter
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Viktor E. Frankl
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Where liberty is, there is my country.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled... →
Milton Friedman
If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe... →
Foster Friess
I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
Christopher Gadsden
My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of... →