“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, _conceived in liberty_, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”—Abraham Lincoln. “Where slavery is, there _liberty_ cannot be and where _liberty_ is, slavery cannot be.”—Abraham Lincoln. “Respect for its (the government’s) authority, compliance with its laws, acquiesence in its measures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true Liberty.”—George Washington. “Liberty—on its positive side, denotes the fulness of individual existence; on its negative side it denotes the necessary restraint on all, which is needed to promote the greatest possible amount of liberty for each.”—Bouvier’s _Law Dictionary_, Vol. I. p. 217. 13 “Other nations have received their laws from conquerors; some are indebted for a constitution to the sufferings of their ancestors through revolving centuries. The people of this country, alone have formally and deliberately chosen a government for themselves, and with open and uninfluenced consent bound themselves into a social compact. Here no man proclaims his birth or wealth as a title to honorable distinction, or to sanctify ignorance and vice with the name of hereditary authority.”—John Adams. 14 “Liberty means freedom in the enjoyment of all one’s faculties in all lawful ways, the liberty to earn a livelihood by any lawful calling, the liberty to live and work where one wills.”—_Allgeyer vs. Louisiana, 165 U. S. 578._ 15 “Civil liberty is the liberty belonging to men in organized society. It is liberty defined, regulated and protected by positive law of the State or recognized as existing under customary law.”—_Cyclopedia of American Government_, Vol. II, p. 347.