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individual liberty
«The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.»
Author: Ernest Renan
(Historian, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty,
Progress
| Keywords:
individual liberty, postulate, postulates
«The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,»
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
(President)
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Democracy,
Government,
Liberty
| Keywords:
democratic, democratic government, democratic state, essence, fascism, group, groups of people, group of people, individual liberty, ownership, private, private ownership, strong point, tolerate
«Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and property, each living and acting at his own cost»
Author: Josiah Warren
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
acknowledged, cost, cost of living, individual liberty, legitimate, sovereign, sovereignty
«In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary»
Author: Kathleen Norris
| About:
Liberty,
Society
| Keywords:
conflict, conformity, individual liberty, permanent, unresolvable
«Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race.»
«The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
individual liberty, nuisance, nuisances, thus far
«Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.»
Author: Maria Montessori
(Educator, Physician)
| About:
Discipline
| Keywords:
annihilate, annihilates, annihilating, artificially, come through, disciplined, immovable, individual liberty, mute, muted, mutes, paralytic, rendered
«The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.»
«Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law,' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Action
| Keywords:
according, ADD, drawn, equal, Equal rights, extent, individual, individual liberty, Individual right, individual rights, law, liberty, limits, plenitude, rightful, rights, right to liberty, The Law, tyrant, unobstructed, violates, violating
«Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Health,
Liberty
| Keywords:
collective, enjoyed, individual liberty, tasted, The Collective