The excess of liberty, whether in States or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty?
Thus liberty, getting out of all order and reason, passes into the harshest and bitterest form of slavery.
I swore and subscribed to these articles with great cheerfulness and content, although some of them were not so honourable as I could have wished; which proceeded wholly from the malice of Skyresh Bolgolam, the high-admiral: whereupon my chains were immediately unlocked, and I was at full liberty. The emperor himself, in person, did me the honour to be by at the whole ceremony.
The reader may please to observe, that, in the last article of the recovery of my liberty, the emperor stipulates to allow me a quantity of meat and drink sufficient for the support of 1724 Lilliputians.
I had Miss Sophia's bird in my hand, and thinking the poor creature languished for
liberty, I own I could not forbear giving it what it desired; for I always thought there was something very cruel in confining anything.
THE UTILITY OF THE UNION TO YOUR POLITICAL PROSPERITY THE INSUFFICIENCY OF THE PRESENT CONFEDERATION TO PRESERVE THAT UNION THE NECESSITY OF A GOVERNMENT AT LEAST EQUALLY ENERGETIC WITH THE ONE PROPOSED, TO THE ATTAINMENT OF THIS OBJECT THE CONFORMITY OF THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION TO THE TRUE PRINCIPLES OF REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT ITS ANALOGY TO YOUR OWN STATE CONSTITUTION and lastly, THE ADDITIONAL SECURITY WHICH ITS ADOPTION WILL AFFORD TO THE PRESERVATION OF THAT SPECIES OF GOVERNMENT, TO
LIBERTY, AND TO PROPERTY.
A revolutionary tribunal in the capital, and forty or fifty thousand revolutionary committees all over the land; a law of the Suspected, which struck away all security for
liberty or life, and delivered over any good and innocent person to any bad and guilty one; prisons gorged with people who had committed no offence, and could obtain no hearing; these things became the established order and nature of appointed things, and seemed to be ancient usage before they were many weeks old.
"You have your
liberty?" repeated Mazarin, in terror.
Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
Inmates belonging to non-mainstream religions brought a lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections arguing that prison officials had infringed on their religious
liberty by denying them access to religious literature, ceremonial items and group worship.