Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.

Concerns about the decline of liberty in our whole polity is what threatens all of the aspects of it, including democracy.

[O]ne of the problems... both on the left and the right is that the... individual autonomy protected by liberalism tends to take more and more extreme versions... and... becomes self-undermining.

through lowered educational standards, declining intellectual competence, diminished zest for substantive debate, and social sanctions against skepticism, our liberties can be slowly eroded and our rights subverted.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

By making everything secure [governments] have degraded the quality of secrecy.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty

Freedom is never very safe.