Five boxes preserve our freedoms:  soap, ballot, witness, jury, and cartridge.

A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government.

Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty?  Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend ot the security of your liberty?  Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else!...Guard with jealous attention the public liberty.  Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Posterity - you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Control freaks who sneer at people who have 'faith' in the free market (voluntary trading) must be fantasizing an allegedly 'higher' political end than freedom.

They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone--the most prehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.