“[I]n the mouths of some [Liberty] 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 (1787)

This important behind the scenes player at the Constitutional Convention was also the third Supreme Court Justice of the United States.

These words can be read in their full context in Landholder No. 3, at:

http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch9s3.html