When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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.
What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.
The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.
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.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.