They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
~Daniel Webster
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788
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and to be a little less kind to our current executive....
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
~Louis D. Brandeis
posted by David Tyme @ 5:26 PM
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