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Quote by Henry Adams
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restra

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. – Henry Adams

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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. – Edmund Burke

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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt. – John Philpot Curran

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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. – William Blake

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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. – Andre Breton

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. – Michel Foucault

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