Constraints Quote by Walt Whitman

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law…

— Walt Whitman

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of…

— John Ruskin

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

— Lord Acton

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

— Jeremy Bentham

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty.

— Anonymous

There can be no liberty without the law

— Cecil B. DeMille

“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting…

— William Graham Sumner

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes…

— James Q. Wilson

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint; the more restraint on others to keep off from us, the more liberty we have.

— Daniel Webster