Quote from Fisher Ames 

"Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent."

Quote by:
Fisher Ames
(1758-1808), American statesman, orator and political writer
Source:
Essay on Equality, December 15, 1801
 
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