"Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world."
— Liberty

January 1, 1970

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Oliver Ellsworth, in "A Landholder, III" in The Connecticut Courant No. 1191, (19 November 1787), also in Essays On The Constitution Of The United States, Published During Its Discussion By The People, 1787-1788 (1892) edited by Paul Leicester Ford, p. 146