“Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws.... There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased -- freedom from the despotism of the majority.” PeopleMenFirstsTwoWholeGovernmentFormLawIndividualJusticeLibertyHonorLimitsTaxesMajorityDetermineIndividualismTaxationDecencyDespotismBoonDecorum Book:Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue Source: Alexander Hamilton: Lapham's Quarterly - Special Issue
“I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types, immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being, is no vice.” IfsThinkingWayHumansLooksDifferentTermHuman BeingsLibertyDoubtTypeApproachDetermineDenyDefenseBe GoodLook UpJustifiedAsianExtremism Author:Malcolm X
“Norms appearing in the form of law entitle actors to exercise their rights or liberties. However, one cannot determine which of these laws are legitimate simply by looking at the form of individual rights. Only by bringing in the discourse principle can one show that each person is owed a right to the greatest possible measure of equal liberties that are mutually compatible.” PersonsShowsFormLawActorsIndividualLibertyPrinciplesRightsExerciseEqualDetermineDiscourseNormAppearingCompatibleIndividual Rights Author:Jurgen Habermas
“It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.” WayWarFactsFreedomLibertyDeterminePatrioticAnti WarAntiwar Author:Dorothy Thompson
“The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.” IdeasOrderThreePowerfulLibertyRevolutionMusic IsConceptsImportanceDetermineEvolveFraternityFrench Revolution Author:Daniel Barenboim
“The cost in terms of liberties lost and the unnecessary exposure to terrorism are difficult to determine, but in time it will become apparent to all of us that foreign interventionism is of no benefit to American citizens, but is instead a threat to our liberties.” LostDifficultTermLibertyCitizensCostBenefitsThreatDetermineTerrorismUnnecessaryExposureAmerican CitizensInterventionism Book:The Revolution: A Manifesto Source: The Revolution: A Manifesto
“If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.” IfsSelfCountrySufferingDiesLibertyBuiltDeterminationUltimateDetermineSelf Determination Author:Jack Kevorkian