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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. (Acton John)
Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. (Acton John)
The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week. (Acton John)
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. (Acton John)
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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. (Acton John)
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. (Acton John)
There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself. (Acton John)
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. (Acton John)
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. (Acton John)
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion. (Acton John)
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. (Acton John)
Peace is liberty in tranquillity. (Acton John)
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. (Acton John)
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. (Acton John)
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. (Acton John)
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Acton John)
They who give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Acton John)
Where liberty is, there is my country. (Acton John)
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. (Acton John)
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. (Acton John)
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. (Acton John)
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you. (Acton John)
Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty. (Acton John)
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion. (Acton John)
When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. (Acton John)
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