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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?

— Frederic Bastiat

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— John Acton

There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

— Andre Breton

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

— John Ruskin

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

— Ron Paul

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.

— John Acton

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.

— Charles de Montesquieu

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

— John Stuart Mill

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice?

— Frederic Bastiat