Fear and liberty are consistent; as when a man throweth his goods into the sea for “fear” the ship should sink, he doth it nevertheless very willingly, and may refuse to do it if he will: it is therefore the action of one that was “free”; so a man sometimes pays his debt, only for “fear” of imprisonment, which because nobody hindered him from detaining, was the action of a man at “liberty.” And generally all actions which men do in commonwealths, for “fear” of the law, are actions which the doers had “liberty” to omit.