“Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.”
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902) British politician and historian
Selected Writings of Lord Acton, ed. J. Rufus Fears, 3 vols. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1985-88), 3:519
“The absence of hatred in no way implies the absence of moral indignation.”
Etty Hillesum (1914–1943) Jewish diarist
January 1943, p. 590
Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
Harry V. Jaffa (1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
2000s, Bush's Lincolnian Challenge (2002)
Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer
XII. The origin of evil things; and that there is no positive evil.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
“Liberty is absence of restraint. Freedom is participation in government.”
John R. Commons (1862–1945) United States institutional economist and labor historian
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 111
“Liberty, as such, is only the negative of duty, the absence of restraint or compulsion.”
John R. Commons (1862–1945) United States institutional economist and labor historian
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 118
“Liberty (or freedom) is the absence of coercion by other human beings.”
John Hospers (1918–2011) American philosopher and politician
Source: Libertarianism: A Political Philosophy for Tomorrow, (1971), p. 10
“Legally, the term liberty means absence of duty, or rather the limit of duty.”
John R. Commons (1862–1945) United States institutional economist and labor historian
Source: Legal foundations of capitalism. 1924, p. 53
Milan Kundera (1929–2023) Czech author of Czech and French literature
New York Review of Books (19 July 1984)
