Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that unless freedom is universal it is only extended privilege.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
It appears first, that liberty is a natural, and government an adventitious right, because all men were originally free.
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