The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.
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.
Power's not what the Constitution was about.
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.
Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.
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