Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.
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.
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
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.
In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
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