The spirit of liberalism is to create free men; it is not the regimentation of men.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The freedom of man is, in political liberalism, freedom from persons, from personal dominion, from the master; the securing of each individual person against other persons, personal freedom.
When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.
Free men are the strongest men.
True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.
I know what you're going to say! 'They are men, and men should be free.' A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use.
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.
All men are born equally free.