Freedom Quotes

"One cannot be obligated to serve the collective good against one's will."

"Each person has absolute sovereignty over their own life and labor."

"Voluntary participation in society is more legitimate than coercive membership."

"One person's talents cannot be regarded as collective resources to be distributed."

"Each individual has a fundamental right to what they have legitimately acquired."

"One's talents and abilities are not public property to be allocated by the state."

"Persons have the right to the fruits of their own labor and productive efforts."

"Voluntary exchange and free market transactions respect the agency of participants."

"Each individual is the rightful owner of their own talents and labor."

"Each person has an absolute right to control the fruits of their own labor."

"A society's basic institutions must be publicly justified to all citizens as free and equal."

"The value of liberty must be understood in relation to citizens' capacity to pursue their conception of the good."

"Fair terms of social cooperation require that all citizens be treated as free and equal."

"The concept of the person as free and equal is fundamental to liberal democracy."

"Citizens' life plans cannot be pursued unless basic rights and freedoms are secure."

"Fair value of political liberty requires preventing concentrations of economic power."

"The basic rights that justice requires are those necessary for exercising the two moral powers."

"The capacity for moral personality is what grounds equal citizenship and basic rights."

"The original position represents the standpoint of free and equal citizens in a democratic society."

"The capability to form and pursue a conception of the good life is fundamental to personhood."

"A democratic society must respect the separateness of persons and their individual pursuits."

"Liberal justice does not impose any comprehensive conception of human flourishing on citizens."

"The right to equal concern and respect is foundational to democratic citizenship."

"A just society provides all citizens with access to the goods necessary for rational agency."

"Citizens possess higher-order interests in their capacity to form their own conception of the good."

"The basic liberties must be secured equally for all citizens to exercise political power fairly."

"Freedom includes the capacity to revise and pursue one's conception of the good."

"Political liberalism allows citizens to maintain diverse comprehensive doctrines while sharing public principles."

"Citizens' moral capacities ground their equal standing in political society."

"Security becomes the justification for suspending the rights that security supposedly protects."