The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
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.
Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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.
There can be no liberty without the law.
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual.
A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Every law is an infraction of liberty.