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Legally, the term liberty means absence of duty, or rather the limit of duty.

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Liberty, as such, is only the negative of duty, the absence of restraint or compulsion.

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Liberty is as much a matter of compulsion as duty, but where duty says to a person that he must or must not, liberty says to other persons that they must not interfere with that person, or that they even must help to prevent still other persons from interfering, if necessary.

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