I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 27 June 1839

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. -- Louis Brandeis, in Olmstead v. United States (1928)

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”-- Ronald Reagan