Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
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.
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.
Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
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.
Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now.
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