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?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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?
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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 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.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
There can be no liberty without the law.