The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
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.
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 prevention of control by others.
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.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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.