The Founders on Civil Liberty

• "There is danger from all men.  The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." - John Adams
• "They who are willing to sacrifice an essential liberty for a little temporary security will lose both and deserve neither." - Benjamin Franklin
• The Laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never cam make him wise, virtuous, or happy." - John Quincy Adams