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The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

— Ernest Renan

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Only by acknowledging the success and sacrifice made by those who came before us can we fully understand what we must do to ensure the liberty of those who will succeed us.

— Yvette Clarke

All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.

— John Wayne

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

— David Lloyd George

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

— John Adams

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

— John Acton

Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

— Florence Ellinwood Allen

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.

— Rudy Giuliani

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

✗Opposing Perspectives

Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It's our natural birthright, not a gift from the sovereign. Our founders upended things and divided power to enshrine a promise, not a process.

— Don Willett