A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for 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.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
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.
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated.
If, in the name of liberty, we allow individuals to act in a way that damages the wellbeing of the whole, it will inevitably mean the breakdown of mutuality, thereby changing the very nature of our society.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.