“[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.” StatesValuesFreedomLibertyLiberalismIndividuals Book:Liberalism and Its Critics Source: Liberalism and Its Critics
“When Franklin D. Roosevelt launched Social Security in 1935, he did not present it as expressing the mutual obligation of citizens to one another. ... Rather than offer a communal rationale, FDR argued that such rights were essential to "true individual freedom," adding, "necessitous men are not free men.” FreedomSocial Security Book:Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? Source: Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?