Freedom Quotes

"A just scheme of social cooperation respects the autonomy of all participants."

"The basic liberties are needed for the development and exercise of moral powers."

"The capacity to revise our conception of the good is essential to being a free person."

"A just society respects the separateness and distinctness of individuals."

"Persons possess a fundamental interest in developing and exercising their moral powers."

"The worth of political liberty depends on whether citizens can effectively exercise it."

"Persons are free when they are not subject to arbitrary constraints."

"Freedom without order is chaos; order without freedom is tyranny."

"Liberty upsets patterns."

"Voluntary association is a fundamental principle of a free society."

"Self-ownership is the fundamental right from which others derive."

"Freedom is more important than equality in a just society."

"Coercive redistribution violates individual liberty and property rights."

"One has the right to act on one's own conception of the good life."

"Individuals may pursue their own projects and life plans without state interference."

"One cannot be forced to contribute to others' well-being against one's will."

"Justice requires respecting each person's ability to shape their own destiny."

"One's life is one's own to live according to one's own values."

"State enforcement of distributive patterns continuously violates liberty."

"One has the right to keep what one legitimately acquires and holds."

"Rights establish immunity from certain harmful actions by others."

"Each person's life belongs to themselves and to no one else."

"One's projects and pursuits need not serve others' interests."

"Rights protect what individuals may do without needing permission."

"One cannot be forced to serve ends one does not endorse."

"Free persons will not voluntarily establish unjust institutions."

"Individual liberty is the highest political value in a just state."

"Individual rights establish permanent constraints on permissible action."

"The public sphere emerges wherever people assemble to discuss matters of common concern."

"Habermas once noted that we inherit the burden of history while remaining free to reinterpret it."