The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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 is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Implicit in true freedom of spirit lies a proud and virile will. Such glorious power of free will to choose, envisages beneficent social responsibility as manifest and welcome.
Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.
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.
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