• Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

  Henry Brooks Adams
  American historian 1838-1918
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. responsibility
2. responsible
3. absence
4. ideally
5. himself

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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. by : Henry Brooks Adams

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