Individual Liberty and Social Control “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” -Thomas Jefferson Daniel Webster said in a speech given in Charleston, South Carolina, May 10, 1847, “Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.” However, Ralph Waldo Emerson made an entry into one of his …showed first 75 words of 1548 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1548 total…First Principles of Government, 1795. He said, “He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.” I don’t feel it is right for the American Nazi Party to march on Skokie, but I must defend that right as I would defend a civil rights activist’s right to march on Washington, one cannot limit liberty and still call it liberty, there is either liberty or no liberty at all.