Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
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.
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
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.
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
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.