When human beings are able to govern themselves, they have liberty. Humans living under a totalitarian state experience little or no liberty, while humans living under anarchy experience almost complete liberty. There are different conceptions of liberty, which articulate the relationship of individuals to society in different ways, including some which relate to life under a "social contract" or to existence in a "state of nature", and some whic...
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Quotations About This Subject:
- Give me liberty or give me death ,
- Let every nation know... that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ,
- License they mean when they cry liberty. ,
- We are as great as our belief in human liberty -- no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. ,
- Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. ,
- Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. ,
- Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people. ,
- Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ,
- I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death. ,
- What a pity we don't pursue the salvation of humans with the same verve we pursue the salvation of animals
Works Written About This Topic:
- Anarchy, State, and Utopia ,
- A Vindication of the Rights of Men ,
- On Liberty ,
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects ,
- The Transparent Society ,
- The Constitution of Liberty ,
- Inequality Reexamined ,
- Development as Freedom ,
- Freedom ,
- The Mainspring of Human Progress
