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But this remainder may be a form of security; it is never liberty. Liberty is indivisible; one cannot curtail a part of it without killing all of it. This little part you are curtailing is the very essence of my liberty; it is all of it. Through a natural, necessary, and irresistible movement, all of my liberty is concentrated precisely in the part, small as it may be, which you curtail. * 3 If we declare those actions infamous which are in themselves indifferent, we lessen the infamy of those which are really infamous. * 4 ...when the name of collective interest is bestowed upon the one in light of which they shut down my workshop, prevent me from pursuing such and such an activity, impound my newspaper or my book, trespass against my liberty, ban me from becoming a lawyer or doctor on the basis of my personal study and clientele, issue me with the order not to sell this or purchase that, when, in short, they dub collective interest that which they invoke in order to prevent me from earning my living openly, in the manner of my choosing and under everyone’s gaze, I declare that I cannot understand it, or rather, that I understand only too well. * 5 The decree from outside saying what the individual may do is the very root of the evil. Even if the results seemed good, it would be bad. * 6 Those who reject authoritarianism will require nobody's permission to breathe. The libertarian owes no duties or allegiance; is not grateful for permission to reside anywhere on his own planet and denies the right of any one to screen off bits of it for their own use or rule. * 7 ...it's first necessary to create options for yourself which will make you independent, free from serving others. * 8 ...free constitutions of government seldom or never take their rise from the scheme of any single projector, yet are they often preserved by the vigilance, activity, and zeal, of single men. Happy are they who understand and who choose this object of care; and happy it is for mankind when it is not chosen too late.... * 9 Liberty is a right which every individual must be ready to vindicate for himself, and which he who pretends to bestow as a favor, has by that very act in reality denied. Even political establishments, though they appear to be independent of the will and arbitration of men, cannot be relied on for the preservation of freedom; they may nourish, but should not supersede that firm and resolute spirit, with which the liberal mind is always prepared to resist indignities, and to refer its safety to itself. * 10 ...no one liberates anyone else and no one liberates himself alone: the community must work together to achieve its liberation. * 11 ...the principle of choice will represent a move towards liberty. * 12 Socially speaking, the criterion of civilization and culture is the degree of liberty and economic opportunity which the individual enjoys; of social and international unity and cooperation unrestricted by man-made laws and other artificial obstacles; by the absence of privileged castes and by the reality of liberty and human dignity; in short, by the true emancipation of the individual. * 13 Zeus halves our value on the day that makes us slaves. * 14 ...free governments have been commonly the most happy for those who partake of their freedom... * 15 The heart of man delights in liberty: The very image of constraint is grievous to it: When you would confine it by violence, to what would otherwise have been its choice, the inclination immediately changes, and desire is turned into aversion. * 16 We want, not only the independence of a State, not only the independence of a nation, but something far more glorious -- the absolute independence of the individual. That is what we want. I want it so that I, one of the children of Nature, can stand on an equality with the rest; that I can say this is MY air, MY sunshine, MY earth, and I have a right to live, and hope and aspire, and labor, and enjoy the fruit of that labor, as much as any individual or any nation on the face of the globe. * 17 The free man, on the other hand, has thrown away the trammels of the past together with its lies and brutality. He has buried the rotten corpse of slavery and the notion that the past is better. Man has already partially liberated himself from the fog of lies and brutality, which enslaved him from the day of his birth, from the worship of the bayonet, money, legality, and hypocritical science. * 18 They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it... * 19 ...where freedom is, the individual is clearly able to order for himself his own life as he pleases. * 20 I should have wished to live and die free... * 21 ...when I behold numbers of naked savages, that despise European pleasures, braving hunger, fire, the sword and death, to preserve nothing but their independence, I feel that it is not for slaves to argue about liberty. * 22 A little disturbance gives the soul elasticity; what makes the race truly prosperous is not so much peace as liberty. * 23 Base souls have no belief in great men; vile slaves smile in mockery at the name of liberty. * 24 ...I believe in freedom, created through individual action. * 25 ...in order to pursue individual liberty, we should first pursue society's liberty... * 26 If on the other hand you insist on the value of your gifts, keep up their price, do not let yourselves be forced to sell out below price, do not let yourselves be talked into the idea that your ware is not worth its price, do not make yourself ridiculous by a "ridiculous price," but imitate the brave man who says, I will sell my life (property) dear, the enemy shall not have it at a cheap bargain... * 27 ...all freedom that has been practiced in all ages of the world has been beneficial just in proportion to the extent of human nature it covered. 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