It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
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.
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?
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.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
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