Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Democracy passes into despotism.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.