A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.
It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.
The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.