Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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 right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
The truth is that men are tired 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 lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
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.
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.