liberty is to faction, as air is to
Liberty is to Faction What Air is to Fire. Oct 13th, 2009 by wintercow20. To Those Who Condemn Liberty, Iâd remind you that the American founding, whatever its ugly warts and inconsistencies, was essentially a libertarian founding. It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.