The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
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.
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.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
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.
Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.