The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.