#liberty

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of punishing injustice? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#individual #injustice #law #lawful #liberty

In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. ↗

— David Lloyd George

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There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#liberty #unless

Empire and liberty. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#liberty

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. ↗

— William Blackstone

#civil #civil liberty #diminishes #doing #fellow

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#also #always #been #liberty #me

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#liberty #light #place #should #university

Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#food