Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

Quote credited to Ernest Benn (Sir John Pickstone Benn)

Life
August 8, 1912
see bottom right-hand corner of page 1562

Rockford Register-Gazette
(Illinois)
August 15, 1912
page 8, column 2: Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.—Life.

San Francisco Chronicle
(California)
April 8, 1917
Cartoonagrams by Charles A. Ogden
Second tier, first panel: Behold a chick getting it’s first liberty. Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. 

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