Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.

Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.