When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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