Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
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 cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
There can be no liberty without the law.