Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.
Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom and respecting the rights of other people.
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
I am a person of the 18th century.
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
This young century will be liberty's century.