Quote from James Fenimore Cooper 

"Liberty is not a matter of words,
but a positive and important condition of society.
Its greatest safeguard after placing its foundations in a popular base,
is in the checks and balances imposed on the public servants."

Quote by:
James Fenimore Cooper
(1789-1851) American Novelist
Source:
The American Democrat, 1838
 
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