LIBERTY and FREEDOM

LIBERTY and FREEDOM , nearly everyone thinks that these two words are synonymous. 

Yes, they can be, however, there are also great differences between them. 

Liberty is used as a sense of "a right".

Freedom is generally meant in form of "independence".

Freedom is the independence from another country, or party.  Freedom can also be used to express emancipation or salvation.  Freedom is meant for the masses who are under the iron heel of government, a political party or with the case of Negro slavery in the Southern States freedom.

Liberty is meant for the individual.  Liberty is the root cause of freedom.

The national anthem should then be "When liberated men shalt act and preserve us a nation".

Liberty is the condition of being free, free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on ones behavior or political views.

Neither the Declaration of Independence   or the Constitution of the United States use the word "freedom" but describe our rights in the terms, "Blessings of Liberty and Life, and the Pursuit of Happiness". 

Blessing which come from our Father in Heaven who inspired the Founding Fathers to form and write those two blessed documents.

Much of the following is taken from Eric Reimer of Townhall who expresses the difference very well.

Many feel that "freedom" is as described by Webster as primarily and simply in terms of the lack of restraint or barriers to an action.

This is from Dennis Harris:  

Freedom is not given in the "Constitution".  Freedom is not a right!

Liberty is freedom within  certain bounds.

Freedom means raw ability to act and do as one pleases or wills.

It is not "THE STATUE OF FREEDOM" it is the "STATUE OF LIBERTY".