His liberty and perhaps his life depended upon his success.

Not just the quality of public debate, but even our liberty, may depend on the right to know.

"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press," said Thomas Jefferson, "and that cannot be limited without being lost."

Her own liberty depended on allowing him none.

America's civil liberties depend on counsel willing to assert them.

"True civil liberty depends on the safety of property," he told his Council of State.

"If Joshua's life and liberty depend on it."

Since lives and liberties depend on clarity, not obfuscation, and upon reason, not hyperbole, let me take this opportunity to be clear.

"The liberties of America depend upon him in great degree."

But upon the impartial administration of justice depends the liberty of every individual, the sense which he has of his own security.