It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.
The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.