A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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.
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
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.
But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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