I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
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 lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
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.
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.
There can be no liberty without the law.
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.