Liberty Constraints Quotes

There ought to be limits to freedom.

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

A just society is one in which liberty for one person is constrained only by the demands created by equal liberty for another.

Your liberty to swing your arms ends where my nose begins.

The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children.

Liberty is not enough.

The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.