Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
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 consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.
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 the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.