> La liberté des uns s'arrête là où commence celle des autres. Few French people don't know this proverb. It surprised me when I noticed US citizens were much

> La liberté des uns s'arrête là où commence celle des autres. Few French people don't know this proverb. It surprised me when I noticed US citizens were much less cognizant of it. Maybe because Freedom is praised so highly we cannot even acknowledge its fundamental limitations? If someone is at liberty to kill you, your freedom to live peacefully might be severely limited. If someone has the freedom to spread lies about you, your freedom to preserve your own reputation might be severely limited. And so on.