Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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?
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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.
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.
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.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread 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.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.