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.
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.
All mankind… being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
Machiavelli’s teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion dem , s at least the profession of good faith.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
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