Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

— Ezra Pound

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

— Bernard-Joseph Saurin

The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which…

— George Sutherland

We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit,…

— Anonymous

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

— Anonymous

The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that…

— J. M. Coetzee

Is everything right because the law allows it?

— Solomon Northup

You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.

— Simone Signoret

“Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.”

— Joe Abercrombie

To the medieval mind a liberty was a right to the enjoyment of a specific property It was a freedom to do something with…

— Arthur Bryant

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds…

— Anonymous

This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at…

— Tibor R. Machan

There are multitudes of persons whose idea of liberty is the right to do what they please, instead of the right of doing that…

— Henry Ward Beecher

However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.

— Mike Pence

Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.

— Herbert Spencer