“Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free. In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food.” MenYearsHas BeensAgeNextStrongNationsTermNaturalPoorCommonRaceLibertyEnemyProgressCenturyCrimeIgnoranceCivilizationYears AgoFruitDeedsSeedsLustEaseMotiveMatureDelicateSuperstitionsHarvestConquestGood DeedsCravingPoor ManPretextStrong ManAthensSowingNatural Enemies Author:Lord Acton
“[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.” YearsHumansLibertyHistoryTraditionFruitLibertarianHuman History Book:Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice
“Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.” ReasonScienceReligionIndividualReligiousPartyLibertyMoralVirtueCommunicationSpeechDiversityPhilosophicalPressesFruitPursuitRecognitionArtisticOppositionAssociationSkepticismOrganizeInquiryPublishDissentCivil LibertiesReligious FreedomFreedom Of The PressIndividual RightsFree PressFree ThoughtOpposition Parties Book:In defense of secular humanism Source: In defense of secular humanism
“To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.” MenGivingStillsPoliticsLibertyEconomyPropertySlaveFruitDenyLiberalismWorth LivingBadgesLife Worth Living Author:George Sutherland
“It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but to deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty is to still leave him a slave.” MenGivingStillsTogetherThreeIndividualLibertyRightsHe ManSacredPropertySlaveFruitBoundsDenyProtectedArbitraryWorth LivingInterferenceBadgesLife Worth Living Author:George Sutherland
“By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour, Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys. The Fruits of a Man's honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.” ThinkingMenArtUseActionEnjoyNaturalHurtLibertyLordHonestHe ManIndustryFitMembersEternalPropertyFruitRewardsEqualityEvery ManLimitationTitlesLabourSoleEquity Author:Cato the Younger