“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
Edmund Burke
“Without Freedom of thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of speech”
Benjamin Franklin
“Virtue has never been as respectable as money”
Mark Twain
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Anyone who trades liberty for security deserves neither liberty nor security”
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”