Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
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 the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.
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