They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
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.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
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.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.