To me, these quotes are completely different and can be interpreted in completely different ways. Well, he only said one of them, but every "quote" website you go to will have it slightly different. I'm not seeing much difference between them though :? . Maybe I'm just being picky, but the phrase essential liberty to me makes a huge difference. As Barihawk said, he wouldn't mind giving up some rights that he wouldn't consider to be major, but he wouldn't give up rights that he believes to be essential. The first quote seems like a blanket statement that says no rights whatsoever, no matter what, and I find that to be unreasonable.