Words to live by.

"Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends
the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly
understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in
divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything,
which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the
rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for
want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good."

-- Oliver Ellsworth (A Landholder, No. III, 19 November 1787)

Reference: Essays on the Constitution of the United States, Ford,
ed. (146); original The Connecticut Courant [Sheehan (4:4)]