If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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 consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
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.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.