Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If speech always wins, even if it's an atomic secret that's going to be broadcast to our enemies, it's easy to make a decision. Speech always wins. But it doesn't... Liberty doesn't always trump equality or equality always trump liberty.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
Too much liberty corrupts us all.
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.
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