The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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.
Let not ambition take possession of you; love the friends of the people, but reserve blind submission for the law and enthusiasm for liberty.
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.
In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.'
The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.