The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty.  Abraham Lincoln quotes I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. Thomas Jefferson quotes What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute. There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried? Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. Kahlil Gibran quotes He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression;for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. Thomas Paine quotes They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin quotes Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it George Bernard Shaw quotes God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country." Benjamin Franklin quotes Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. Thomas Jefferson quotes It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. David Hume quotes | 
