It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.
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.
The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
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.
Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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.
It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.