FREEDOM: Everything depends upon what is meant by freedom. - Mircea Eliade, Yoga, Immortality and Freedom.

FREEDOM: The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labour; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labour. Here are two, not only different but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny. - Abraham Lincoln.

FREEDOM & THE RIGHT NOT TO BE FREE, ACCORDING TO ONE'S CHOICE: It is hard to define freedom because freedom includes the right not to be free according to one's choice, the right to submit to voluntary servitude: 'The truth is that there is not enough of the right kind of liberty; the fundamental liberty to choose to be free or not to be free, according to one's choice. …" - P. E. dePuydt, Panarchy, in PEACE PLANS No. 4, p. 4.

FREEDOM, DICTATORS, MAJORITIES, BUREAUCRACIES: Nearly everyone says he favors freedom, but in reality - with few exceptions in today's world - most people are 'scared to death' of it. This ambivalence is not widely recognized, but it is the same thing as the fear of righteousness or intelligence or outstanding talent or virtue of any sort. - However, merely to use the word freedom communicates nothing. No two persons ascribe precisely the same meaning to it; indeed, each individual, as he thinks about freedom, may experience shifting definitions. This word, as are ever so many other terms, is shrouded in fuzziness. So let me define the freedom to which I refer. - I wish to be free from dictators - all of them - be they of the one-man variety or an agglomeration hiding behind an act of Congress or an administrative ruling that restrains creative actions. - Leonard E. Read, Having My Way, 68.

FREEDOM: There are probably thousands of freedom, peace & justice opinions which you have, unfortunately, never seriously considered - because you were not exposed to them. One should imagine that after thousands of years of freedom struggles at least the ideas on freedom would be made completely and readily accessible. - J.Z., 9.11.97, 6.4.00.

FREEDOM, DEFINITION, CONSTITUTIONALISM & ANARCHISM: I am not certain that so-called libertarians have even agreed on a definition of what freedom is. If they haven't as yet defined their terms, it is predictable that they will not agree in other particulars. To some, the word "freedom" seems to mean a centrally-administered code by means of which all men shall be free; to others, the word seems to mean the absence of any centralized administration of any kind. - LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Fall 77.

FREEDOM: What do I mean by freedom? My most concise, and probably least understood, answer: "no man-concocted restraints against the release of creative human energy." The word "free" has so many different meanings! The Oxford Dictionary, for instance, uses over 6,000 words to describe its various connotations. No wonder so few grasp what you and I mean by the free society! The conceptions range from being free of responsibility for self to being free to do anything one pleases regardless of the harm imposed on others, that is, from slavery to anarchy - from planned chaos to unplanned chaos. We are faced with the old, old problem: not only political tyranny but, also, the tyranny of words! - In any event, the aforementioned ambitious intellectual achievement can never be realized unless we come to some common and acceptable definition of "free". Perhaps it might help to return to the word's original spelling and definition, that is, to medieval English. It was then "freo" and was defined as "to love, to delight, to endear… Not in bondage to another." The freedom philosophy, when rooted in this meaning of "free" makes a great deal of sense to me. At least it deserves analysis and perhaps adoption. - Leonard E. Read, Having My Way, 164/165.

Remember: A complete compilation would probably come to thousands, if not ten-thousands of pages. Isn't the topic important enough to bring this project to completion and then take it from there, with corrections, refutations and selections? - J.Z., 7.5.2000.

Now ponder the main body of quotes and notes add your own and make them all accessible, at least on LMP's microfiche, via long e-mail attachments to friends, on a website or by publishing them otherwise. I make no copyrights claims for my own notes and, in the cause of freedom, I do not recognize such claims by others when they go beyond the claim of authorship. - PIOT, John Zube, P.O. Box 52, Berrima, NSW 2577, Australia, Tel. (02) 48771436. E-mail: jzube@acenet.com.au Website, containing literature list of LIBERTARIAN MICROFICHE PUBLISHING, introductions to micrographics, 2 essays on monetary freedom and 2 on panarchism: www.acenet.com.au/~jzube It lists the contents of PEACE PLANS 1-1545. In the meantime PEACE PLANS 1546-1620 have been published. - This collection is just part of LMP's upcoming SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY encyclopedia, of which the first four volumes, 840 pages, on 4 microfiche, have been published by LMP, covering A - Democracy.

FREEDOM ACCORDING TO G. B. SHAW, interviewed by E. Michael Salzer: 1.) What is your definition of the term Freedom? Leisure. We are not born free. We are slaves of Nature for 8 hours sleep, 2 or 3 for eating & moving, & the rest for the labor & service to produce our necessary food, clothes & lodging. - 2.) What freedom can the average man expect of life? A five day working week & 6 hours leisure a day are now probably possible. What the average man expects depends on his intelligence & character. - 3.) Is the Russian meaning of freedom (ultimately) the same as that propounded by the western people? Freedom is the same everywhere. More of it may be possible in a South Sea island where food is nearly as free as air & clothing is not a necessity than in Belgium or in the Arctic Circle. But it means leisure & nothing else. - 4.) Has, in your opinion, science fostered human freedom? Political science can distribute leisure as it can distribute income. It can & at present it does grossly misdistribute it; but industrial science & mass production has greatly increased both. (Note by J.Z.: Obviously, he does not consider economic freedom as a factor in providing more leisure & a higher income.) - 5.) Is there a common denominator for the various interpretations of the term freedom as presented by the different political & religious creeds? I tell you freedom is leisure for all nations & all creeds. A spade is a spade whether it is called an agricultural implement or a bloody shovel. Freedom has only one reality: leisure. - So all who do support themselves by their own efforts are thereby & to that extent unfree! - according to G.B.S. - Moreover, those in prison, in their leisure time there, would be free, too! - If one is free then one has often leisure, too. But while at leisure one is not always free. Even under totalitarian regimes and in their penal institutions people do enjoy limited leisure periods. They do not set them free. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & ABUSE: Freedom can be abused. - Popular view. If it is abused in crimes without victims: sins or vices, then this is not the business of other people. The freedom and rights of others can only be easily infringed when these do not readily and ably resist such infringements. But, most importantly, freedom, as a general condition, never goes so far as to legitimize abuses, like the infringement of the freedom of others. It has its natural limit in the freedom of others. When people infringe the rights and liberties of others they are not authorized to do so by rights and liberties. - They can be blamed and held responsible but not the rights and liberties involved. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & ABUSES: The true remedy for the abuses of freedom is more freedom. - Dyer D. Lum, in: Reichert, Partisans of Freedom, 240. - It is wrong to speak of "abuses of freedom". A condition of freedom between people does not allow some to abuse their strength or cunning or position to infringe the freedom of others. Thus, while the freedom of others is restricted in abuses, the abusers do not abuse their own freedom, since their own freedom does not go so far to allow this, although their powers might. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM & ACTION, REASON: Freedom, the capability of pure reason to act for itself in practice. - Kant, Metaphysik, p. 14.

FREEDOM & ACTION: It is only in freedom of action that a man's full powers are used & developed. - Dr. H.G. Pearce in GOOD GOVERNMENT, Dec. 1971.

FREEDOM & AGGRESSION: Freedom is the absence of aggression. - SLL leaflet: Voluntarism.

FREEDOM & AGGRESSION: The restraint of the aggressor is the freedom of the sufferer. … - L. T. Hobhouse, Liberalism, 1911, p. 92.

FREEDOM & ALTERNATIVES: Freedom in any direction implies the conception & the possibilities of alternatives. - Chapman Cohen, What Is Freethought? 4.

FREEDOM & ANARCHISTS, INTOLERANCE, EGALITARIANS, SOCIALIST LIBERTARIANS ETC.: Anarchists to be free ONLY to do what they please with their OWN persons, property and communities. They do not have the right to be aggressors, coercers and expropriators of those who happen to disagree with them. - J.Z., 18.1.95.

FREEDOM & ANARCHY: Individual freedom may gradually come close to anarchy. - R.C.W. Ettinger, Man into Superman, 146.

FREEDOM & ANSWERS: I don't have all the answers - but free men have. - J.Z., 10.12.75.

FREEDOM & ANSWERS: I must admit that I do not have the answer to everything - but frfeedom does - because it releases the creative energy of all individuals. - J.Z., n.d.

FREEDOM & ART: Freedom does not guarantee masterpieces. - E.M. Forster, Culture and Freedom, BBC broadcast, 1940. - Do despotism or totalitarianism guarantee them? Is art the purpose of freedom? At least freedom for artists assures that many serious tries can be made to produce masterpieces or at least works which the artist himself and perhaps some of his friends and relatives enjoy. And it does not force anybody to subsidize the junk art preferred by politicians or bureaucrats. - J.Z., 20.6.92, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & AUTHORITY: All authority is a delusion, whether in theology or in sociology. Everything is radically, even sickeningly, free. - Wilson/Shea, Illuminatus III, 137. - What is sickening about it? - J.Z.

FREEDOM & AUTHORITY: All freedom is "unauthorized". That is what is good about it. - J.Z., 10.7.89.

FREEDOM & AUTHORITY: Freedom is the authority which permits every man everything that does not infringe the rights of others. Its foundation is nature, its standard justice, its protection the law. It has its moral limit in the principle: Don't do anything to anybody that you don't want done to yourself. - French Constitution of 1793.

FREEDOM & AUTHORITY: No people, no time, no thinking man can avoid to distinguish again between freedom & authority. Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos, & authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny. - Stefan Zweig, "Costellio gegen Calvin". (Diese immer wieder notwendige Abgrenzung zwischen Freiheit und Autoritaet bleibt keinem Volke, keiner Zeit und keinem denkenden Menschen erspart: denn Freiheit is nicht moeglich ohne Authoritaet (sonst wird sie zum Chaos), und Autoritaet nicht ohne Freiheit (sonst wird sie zur Tyrannei).

FREEDOM & AUTHORITY: The authority that grants "a freedom" can always withdraw the grant. - Freedom is not a permission granted by any authority. Freedom is a fact. Whether or not this fact is known, freedom is in the nature of every living person, as gravitation is in the nature of this planet. - Rose Wilder Lane, The Discovery of Freedom, 149.

FREEDOM & AUTONOMY: "… the great human liberty, which, destroying all the dogmatic, metaphysical, political and juridical fetters by which everybody today is loaded down, will give to everybody, collectivities as well as individuals, full autonomy in their activities and their development, delivered once and for all from all inspectors, directors and guardians. - Bakunin, quoted in Krimerman & Perry, Patterns of Anarchy, p. 92.

FREEDOM & BEING ALONE, SOCIETY: A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and, if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. - Schopenhauer. - On political, economic and social matters Sch., as opposed to Kant, was a rather superficial thinker. Acccording to Beckerath, who started as an admirer of Schopenhauer, he was even dishonest in his criticism of Kant, e.g. in quoting him. Beckerath bothered enough to check out all he quoted or said he quoted from Kant. - Are there many formulations of individual rights which do not presume the coexistence of other people, with equal rights? What meaning have e.g. freedom of expression , freedom of information, freedom of press, freedom of association, otherwise? - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM & BETS, GAMBLING: I bet only on freedom. - J.Z., 5.3.75.

FREEDOM & BOLDNESS, COURAGE: Freedom lies in being bold. - Robert Frost, quoted in TIME. - Seldes. - - Hitler was bold, too, but hardly promoted freedom. Nor does a bold bank robber. - Many criminals are all too bold - but are they free and does their criminal boldness keep us free? - J.Z., 13.4.00. - I also found it used in the film: Escape of the Bird Man. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & BOOKS: Some books leave us free and some books make us free. - Emerson, Journals, 22 December or 1839.

FREEDOM & CAPITALISM: Capitalism & Freedom: Without one you can't have the other. - Mark Tier, in THE AUSTRALIAN, Advertisement, 12/1/74 or 12/10/74. - Even totalitarian States have introduced degrees of free enterprise capitalism on a very small scale - and always upon the unsound foundations of monetary despotism. - In Formosa we had for decades large degrees of economic liberty combined with very little political liberty. - Few statements on freedom cover all the facts. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM & CAPITALISM: Everyone wants to move FORWARD to freedom. - However, through muddled thinking and growing bureaucratic controls, we have been moving BACKWARD to the days of the Pharaohs. - If you want your country to move FORWARD … WHY NOT TRY CAPITALISM? - Discover the TOTAL meaning of freedom through Capitalism. - From a leaflet by Joseph A. Galambos: Destination Freedom.

FREEDOM & CHAINS: Being free, even while one is in chains, that is the true essence of freedom. - Wide-spread view, confining itself to freedom of thought. - J.Z. - Do you enjoy full freedom of thought when you are a) separated from your library, b) far removed from a large public reference library, d) all too far removed, most of the time, from people with similar interests? - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & CHAOS: Freedom equals chaos. - Popular view. - Compare that with Goethe's view, to Chancellor Mueller, in 1827: Freedom is nothing but the possibility to do under all conditions that what is reasonable. - It was the power addicts, not the freedom addicts who have created most of the chaos in the world. - Free people, by definition, do not clash with each other. When there is a clash then someone exceeds the limits of his equal freedom or equal right at the expense of the freedom or right of another. "Single convenience relationships" do not describe a condition of freedom but excesses by one, while "mutual convenience relationships" indicate freedom on all sides. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & CHARACTER, KEEPING & RESTORING FREEDOM: Freedom, like character, is easier kept than restored. - Elizabeth Link, National Headquarter, Liberty Amendment Committee, 1972. - If full freedom options are known and rightfully and skillfully used against its enemies than security for freedom can be relatively easily restored. It becomes difficult, however, if one claims e.g. only freedom of press or freedom of speech or protest as one's freedom fighting method. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & CHOICE: A part of Fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. - Emerson, "Fate", The Conduct of Life, 1860.

FREEDOM & CHOICE: Freedom is choice & the knowledge of choice.

FREEDOM & CHOICE: Freedom is the option of succeeding or failing because we did or did not make a wise choice. No computer, guideline, or political system should dictate the choice. - Ruth E. Hampton, THE FREEMAN, 11/75, 644. - Membership in a political system should also be a free choice - for individuals, not just for majorities. - J.Z., 14.4.00. - Otherwise "consent" and "voting" become meaningless. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & CHOICE: Freedom means only the right of individual choice. - Henry Meulen, THE INDIVIDUALIST, Oct. 64, p. 52.

FREEDOM & CHOICE: Freedom means you have to make your own choices. - Kelvin Throop, ANALOG 8/85, p. 131.

FREEDOM & CHOICE: He is free who lives as he chooses. - Epictetus, Discourses, Bk. iv, ch. 1, sec. 1.

FREEDOM & CHOICE: Is any man free except the one who can live as he chooses? - Persius, Satires, V.

FREEDOM & CHOICE: The essence of liberty is to live just as you choose. - Cicero, De Officiis, I/xx.

FREEDOM & CHOICE: The first act of freedom is to choose it. - Rollo May, On William James - Love and Will.

FREEDOM & CHOICE: What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for yourself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. - Archibald MacLeish.

FREEDOM & CHRISTIANITY: "… what man must do to save himself, i.e. how best to live the life he has come into, in this world, from birth to death. For this purpose it is only necessary to act to others as we wish them to act to us. In that is all the law and the prophets, as Christ said. And to act in that way we need neither icons, nor relics, nor church services, nor priests, nor catechisms, nor governments, but on the contrary, we need perfect freedom from all that; for to do to others as we wish them to do to us is only possible when a man is free from the fables which the priests give out as the only truth, and is not bound by promises to act as other people may order. …"- Leo Tolstoy, Letter to a Non-Commissioned Officer. - From: Davis-Poynter, R.G., For Freedom: Theirs and Ours, an anthology, p. 20.

FREEDOM & CIVILIZATION: "… the highest value of civilization: individual freedom." - Peregrine Worsthorne, London, quoted in THE AUSTRALIAN, 7.11.74.

FREEDOM & COERCION: Freedom is invulnerability to coercion, coercion being physical violence initiated by other volitional beings. - El Ray, L.C. 15, p. 1.

FREEDOM & COERCION: Freedom is the freedom from coercion by other men. - Mark Tier, 12/10/74, in THE AUSTRALIAN. - If you manage to lock yourself out of your house or car then your personal liberty is temporarily also restricted - but not through coercion by others. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM & COERCION: Freedom means non-coercive behaviour.

FREEDOM & COLLECTIVISM: Why don't we give freedom a chance? It never failed us; we failed it. Well, maybe it's too new and radical an idea for most people to understand. Collectivism, under whatever name, is as old as the neolithic god-kings; while it was a mere two centuries ago that Thomas Jefferson wrote on life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as being human rights. - Poul Anderson, NEW LIBERTARIAN, May 78.

FREEDOM & COLLISIONS: We are all components in the two billion body problem. - C.M. Kornbluth, The Syndic, Sphere SF, 1953, Faber & Faber, London, 64, p. 160. - The choice is merely between collisions, harmful to all involved, & freedom for all. Each is responsible for steering his route so that collisions are avoided. - J.Z., 3.4.00.

FREEDOM & COMMANDS: 'Tis not a freedom that, where all command. - Andrew Marvell, The First Anniversary. - Except where all command and manage only themselves. - J.Z., 30.3.99.

FREEDOM & COMMUNICATION: Lack of communication? Sure. But that is lack of freedom. It is not incidental that communication and the spread of knowledge has increased to dramatically in tandem with freedom in America. Freedom is communication. Freedom is exchange. Freedom is an open, shared movement. To be open, it must be shared. - Joan Marie Leonard in THE FREEMAN, 3/77.

FREEDOM & COMPROMISE: Freedom, to Nock, was the only goal worth fighting for: "There is no compromise with freedom. If the principle of freedom be nullified at any point … Freedom … is either a principle, or it is not." - Michael Wreszin, The Superfluous Anarchist Albert Jay Nock, Brown U.P., Providence, 1972, 59.

FREEDOM & COMPULSION: Freedom is a condition without any kind of compulsion, coercion or force. - Popular view. - As if a criminal, victimizing someone, could or should not be rightfully resisted or held responsible, with force if necessary. The criminal's life and limb's should be risked, in such cases, without invoking penalties. If that is too radical for some people then let these radicals opt out and practise their penal system among themselves and all aggressors against them. - J.Z. , n.d. & 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & COMPULSION: Freedom means absence of compulsion by others, especially being unhindered in one's self-enlightenment efforts. - Source?

FREEDOM & COMPULSION: People should be compelled to be freer and more individualistic than they naturally desire to be. - (Percy) Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, 1927. - We see now in Russia that about 30% of the population remain indoctrinated with communist ideas. If we force them to life as free men then they are numerous enough to re-introduce their pet totalitarianism again. If we leave them to freely practise their religion among themselves only then the freedom of other Russians and of the people in the rest of the world will be less threatened. They can still get access to mass extermination devices in Russia! - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & CONSCIENCE: Upon the question: What is freedom?, one master answered: a good conscience. - Hippel. - You could have a good conscience but also be an innocent person serving a gaol sentence or a political prisoner in a concentration camp or the victim of ethnic cleansing attempts. Your good conscience would not liberate you. - J.Z., 9.4.00.

FREEDOM & CONSCIOUSNESS: A free man is someone who at least has become conscious of his lack of freedom. - Laub. - He is not yet a free man but, perhaps, on the road towards becoming a free man. - J.Z., 9.4.00.

FREEDOM & CONSTITUTIONALISM: Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who never dared to think or act. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Conduct of Life.

FREEDOM & CONTROLS: It may be that more controls give the individual greater freedom from want; … Prince Philip. - Controls and subsidies cost taxes. The victims of tax slavery also have wants but to the extent that they are taxed their wants are ignored and what they have earned is, instead, given to those who have not earned it. Both the taxed and those subsidized out of taxes are made less productive and thus less wants can be satisfied. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & COOPERATION: Freedom is the indispensable condition of successful cooperation; without it, cooperation is only a fine name for bondage. - John Strachey? - Should one cooperate with authoritarians, tyrants, criminals? - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & COURAGE: Freedom is a system of courage. - Peguy. - Could one not say the same of e.g. militarism and blood sports? Is a well trained mountaineer free? One exposes oneself to many more dangers if one submits to despotism. - J.Z., 9.4.00.

FREEDOM & CREATIVE ENERGIES, SOLUTIONS, ANSWERS: Only freedom has all the answers available or which will become available - because it releases all creative energies. - J.Z., 19.9.96, 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & CREATIVE ENERGY: Freedom releases the maximum of creative energies. - That is true only when all creative energies are properly marketed. Otherwise, they will all too often be ignored, perished, remain underdeveloped or utilized all too late. See under Ideas Archive. - J.Z., n.d. & 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & CREATIVITY: Freedom affords the only way to release the creativity of the individual. - Leonard E. Read, NOTES FROM FEE, 5/73. - That of all individuals, instead of merely that of a favoured few in limited spheres loved by their sponsors. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & CREATIVITY: Freedom to act creatively as one pleases. - Leonard E. Read, The Path of Duty, 85. - "… each citizen free to act creatively as he pleased, …" Read, in THE FREEMAN, 11/74, on the American Dream.

FREEDOM & CRIME: Oh, Liberty, oh Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name. - Madame de Staël? - The crime of modern anarchists and libertarians consists in ignoring many of their freedom options, regardless how much could be achieved with them. - That is "not only a crime but a mistake". - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & CRIMES WITH VICTIMS: I am for freedom - without exceptions - & this inherently excludes license for anyone to infringe anybody's freedom. If he does, he does not favour freedom &, according to his choice and my principle, he must suffer the consequences. - J.Z., 11/73. - Imagine that for the last quarter of a century thousands of libertarians had systematically collected all sayings on liberty and added their comments. To do this they would have to go through about 15,000 books of quotations, between them, and, naturally, all texts that contain some freedom notions. For an individual an impossible job. For freedom lovers it should have been a labor of love, finished by now. - Not to somehow participate in this job is an almost criminal omission to act. - J.Z., 11.4.00, 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & DANGERS, RISKS: " … but be honest, if you do what you want then you live dangerously." - Konstantin Wecker, Im Namen des Wahnsinns, 102. - Freedom is not naturally dangerous, it does not add to the dangers of nature. But politically it has been made dangerous in many cases for those who prefer it. However, there are still many unused or under-utilized freedom options, like e.g. libertarian microfiche publishing, that are not dangerous and that can be or can become very efficient in promoting liberty. - J.Z., 26.7.92, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & DEATH: Give me liberty or give me death! - Popular slogan, out of ignorance of the life-giving and defensive powers of liberty and of the nature of liberty. Liberty is not something that someone else ought to supply. A declaration that one is prepared to risk one's life to achieve liberty is quite another matter. But this kind of self-sacrifice would rarely be required. What is needed now is largely only the readiness to do some patient and largely unpaid clerical work for liberty. Alas, more people are prepared to risk their lives for very incomplete freedom programs than are prepared to do some clerical work to assemble a complete liberation program. We need more "freedom fighters" prepared to use their pens and keyboards in order to assemble all blueprints for liberty. - J.Z., 7.4.00. - We need more "clerks" for liberty rather than more great prophets and leaders for liberty. The old saying: "To many chiefs and not enough Indians!" indicates the same kind of omission. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & DEATH: It does not matter when a man dies - as long as he dies for freedom. - From film Bataan, on channel u, 21.11.76. It is much more important to live for freedom than to die for it. - J.Z., 12.4.00. - Rather make the enemies of freedom die for their attacks upon it than die vainly defending it. For that struggle, which could be largely a non-violent one, you should arm yourself with the full arsenal of pro-freedom options, all its tools and weapons, all its intellectual ammunition. For that international collaboration and division of labour and special markets and project collaborations are needed - and have to be organized, in a market-like and volungaristic way. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & DECISIONS: Funny thing about me - I like to make my own decisions. - Free after film: Wagons West, which has an "us" & "we" version of this saying. - J.Z., n.d. - Unfortunately, on all too many important subjects, e.g. on taxation, currency questions, war and peace, and membership in States or free societies, too many people have not yet insisted on making their own decisions. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY, VOTING AGE: … participation in a democracy is not necessarily the highest value, the higher value being freedom. - William F. Buckley, Jr., The Governor Listeth, Putnam-Berkeley, 1963-1970, 396. - Political voting is the least that one can do for liberty. It is also a chances to give the numerous enemies of liberty and those who are indifferent to it, the greatest chance to restrict the liberty of liberty lovers. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY: According to Aristotle freedom is the basis of democracy. As democracy is a principle of social order freedom in this sense can mean only the relation of the individual to his fellows and to the social order within which he lives with the others. A freedom not applying to the individual, a freedom which does not liberate the individual from the domination by others, is senseless in this connection. But when Cicero holds that freedom consists in being able to live as one likes, then this can naturally not be the freedom on which democracy is based. Necessarily, the unlimited freedom of the individual, whenever it prefers to live in groups of the species, must suffer the limitations which follow from the conditions of life in groups. With a closer living together the limits of personal freedom tighten. There is no no-man's land left in between. Instead, the freedom area of one contacts the freedom sphere of the other. The freedom of the individual must end where the freedom of the fellow man with equal rights would be infringed. - Karl Walker, Demokratie und Menschenrechte, S. 38. - Alas, here he does not yet indicate the possibility that people with different ideas, interests and abilities could sort themselves out into their own groups which could practise their common beliefs under exterritorial autonomy. Then the mutual interventionism via territorial political voting would be abolished and fighting reduced to infighting within groups, with secession of the minority of dissenters always an option, so they might continued to disagree only about relatively trivial things. Larger disagreements would lead to peaceful schisms - i.e. new tolerant and voluntaristic experiments among like-minded people. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & DEMOCRACY: The liberties of democracies are to be denied to those who would only use them to slander and destroy democracies. - Popular notion. - Freedom is not the creation of democracies. Democracies are only very incomplete realizations of all liberties. The more free they are for expression and criticism and also for free experimentation among dissenting volunteers, the less influence the demagogues will get, the safer the democracies and other, much freer societies, will become. - J.Z., 7.4.00.

FREEDOM & DESPOTISM, REVOLUTIONS: The government of the Revolution is despotism of liberty against tyranny. - Maximilian Robespierre, French National Convention, Feb. 5, 1794. - Remember how he applied his maxims. Despotism in the name of liberty is still despotism rather than the defence of liberty. Robespierre despotically defended only a kind of collective freedom, as interpreted by himself, against all dissenters. He allowed no one to secede from his policies. That constituted his terror regime. It has given revolutions a bad name, all too widely, even up to our times. A rightful revolution begins and continues with individual secessionism and voluntary associationism. He did not permit these in the most important spheres. - J.Z., 6.5.89, 8.4.00. - Exterritorially the absolute monarchists, the constitutional monarchists, the radical republicans and the moderate republicans of the French Revolution could have peacefully coexisted. And from them this tolerance for tolerant actions could have spread, largely peacefully, over the rest of the world. How much bloodshed would have been avoided thereby, how much despotism and poverty? - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & DESPOTISM: Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of Freedom. - W.S. Landor, Imaginary Conversations: Lacy and Cura Merino. - The number and kinds of despotic features remaining in democracies and republics, as well as in the few remaining constitutional monarchies has still brought to the attention of most people. Some of them, like territorialism, monetary despotism and the monopoly of governments to make war and peace decisions, are not even recognized and attacked by most libertarians. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & DEVELOPMENT: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. - Montesquieu.

FREEDOM & DEVELOPMENT: Freedom is the grand and indispensable condition which development presupposes; … Wilhelm von Humboldt, in Sprading, Liberty & the Great Libertarians, 106.

FREEDOM & DIFFERENCE: Freedom makes all the difference. - Sir Michael Blundell, NEWSWEIIK, 22.11.76.

FREEDOM & DIGNITY: "… each of us must cooperate in maintaining the dignity of all." - Frank Herbert, Committee of the Whole, GALAXY, April 65, p. 22. - The dignity of criminals, of politicians, of bureaucrats, of rulers? Dignity is very much a secondary or tertiary value compared with freedom. A free man may be quite undignified and an unfree man may appear to be dignified. - I never got much sense out of this notion. - J.Z., 10.4.00.

FREEDOM & DISOBEDIENCE: Liberty is based on disobedience. - Dave Coull ? Coule?

FREEDOM & DISTRUST: Distrust is the essence of freedom. - Montesquieu. - Distrust towards the enemies of freedom - but also distrust towards all of its friends and lovers - or do at least some of the latter deserve to be trusted? - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & DIVERSITY: Under freedom a limitless number of different programs can be realized by different people. It is not possible to predict, in detail, where creative thinking and freedom of action will take them. We can only predict some likely developments, based upon past experiences and deductions from them. - J.Z., 4/1976, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & DIVISION OF LABOUR: The production, extension spread & protection of individual liberties requires just as much division of labour as does a free market for the production of any other goods and services. Moreover, these services should and could also be provided under the conditions of free enterprise, free trade, full publicity and competitive pricing. This requires the recognition and use of all affordable and efficient alternative media in their strengths, e.g. towards complete, permanent and cheap publishing of all freedom texts. Such division of labour would even be legal and affordable for most freedom lovers. Nevertheless, these pro-freedom opportunities are still widely neglected. - J.Z., 5.12.83, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & DOMESTICATION: I'd rather be dead than domesticated. - Poul Anderson, No Truce with Kings. - It's a matter for individual choice. Some people like being domesticated by a partner they do love. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM & EDUCATION: Freedom is the legitimate daughter of education. - Source? - As if all educated people in dictatorships were free! - J.Z.

FREEDOM & EDUCATION: Men cannot become free without being educated for freedom. - Thomas Buckle, Geschichte der Zivilisation, IX. - Re-translated from the German translation. - The best education for freedom is provided by freedom to experiment, not only in the educational sphere. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM & EDUCATION: The second measure which Mr. Jefferson had at heart was "that of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom." - A.J. Nock, Jefferson, Harcourt, 1926, 312.

FREEDOM & EDUCATION: We don't educate for freedom. - Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed, 144.

FREEDOM & EGOISM: Even freedom is a delusion according to Herbert Read, quoting Stirner: "Who is it that is to become free? You, I, we. Free from what? From everything that is not you, not I, not we… What is left when I have been freed from everything that is not I? Only I, nothing but I. But freedom has nothing to offer to this I himself. Why not proclaim your own identity without further ado? 'Freedom' merely awakens your rage against everything that is not you; 'egoism' calls you to joy over yourself, to self-enjoyment. 'Freedom' is & remains a longing, a romantic plaint, a Christian hope for unearthliness & futurity; 'ownness' is a reality which of itself removes just so much unfreedom as by barring your own way hinders you. What does not disturb you, you will not want to renounce; &, if it begins to disturb you, why, you know that you must obey yourself rather than man!"

FREEDOM & ENCROACHMENTS: Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. - James Madison, speech in the Virginia Convention, June 16, 1788.

FREEDOM & ENDS: Liberty is "not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." - Lord Acton.

FREEDOM & ENERGY: Freedom is the removal of obstructions to the flo9w of energy. - Edmund A. Opitz. - Leonard E. Read usually speaks of creative energies only - but destructive ones inevitably obstruct the flow of energies of others. - J.Z., n.d.

FREEDOM & ENVIRONMENT: Environmentalism in favour of animals and plants is largely promoted by people who know and care little about the economic, political and social environment that is suitable for man. In these spheres they rather tolerate or promote or imagine to be rightful and necessary an environment quite unsuitable to men, especially free men. And most of their "measures" are statist ones, based upon the suppression of basic rights and liberties - about which they do not care. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & ENVIRONMENTALISM: One basic mistake of environmentalists is that although they are not yet clear on what freedom and equal freedom means among humans and other rational beings (if we should encounter them), they try to extend the vague and false notions that they do have on them to animals and plants - and this at the expense of the rights and liberties of man. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & ENVIRONMENTALISTS: Most of the professional or hobby environmentalists have still to study the natural environment for man, namely freedom, and its effects upon man and the rest of the natural environment. In their over-simplified image of man, they assume man to be free and to be, by his free actions, the destroyer of the natural environment. Like most other ideologues they never stop to consider whether present men and their actions are really free. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & EQUAL RIGHTS OR EGALITARIANISM: Equal rights, not egalitarianism! - J.Z.

FREEDOM & EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY: Freedom means equality of opportunity. - Popular belief. - The talented and the rich will always have more opportunities than the dumb and the poor. Nevertheless, both could be considered free in equal rights. - J.Z., 7.4.00.

FREEDOM & EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY: Since the French Revolution, liberty has become closely connected with equality of opportunity: the freedom to develop one's potential. - The Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopaedia.

FREEDOM & EQUALITY: "… freedom for all manner of people", a really equal society. - A. L. Morton, ed., Freedom in Arms, Leveller Writings, 12.

FREEDOM & EQUALITY: Freedom - the only road to any just equality. - J.Z., 11.7.91.

FREEDOM & EQUALITY: In a world where inequality of ability is inevitable, anarchists do not sanction any attempt to produce equality by artificial or authoritarian means. The only equality they posit and will strive their utmost to defend is the equality of opportunity. This necessitates the maximum amount of freedom for each individual. This will not necessarily result in equality of incomes or of wealth but will result in returns proportionate to service rendered. Free competition will see to that. - Laurance Labadie, LIBERTY, Summer 1974.

FREEDOM & EQUALITY: Professor Amnon Rubinstein, himself a socialist, made a grudging , though elegant, admission in a television colloquy a year or two ago in Israel: "On the whole," he said, "those systems that have put liberty ahead of equality have done better by equality than those that have put equality above liberty." - Willilam F. Buckley, Jr., in: Four Freedoms, 23.

FREEDOM & EVIL: Freedom does not abolish evil but it minimizes its effects. - J.Z., 10.5.91. - Those now involved in attempts to minimize the harm done by drugs are setting a limited example for this. Alas, even they do still fear the radical abolition of the war against drugs. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & EXCHANGE: Freedom Is Exchange. - Title of essay by Joan Marie Leonard in THE FREEMAN, 3/77. Compare Bastiat's remark: Society is exchange.

FREEDOM & EXPERIMENTATION: … I am convinced that a great future is in store for them provided they continue to be allowed to breathe the bracing air of freedom. &, indeed, is it so difficult to permit men to experiment, to feel their way, to choose, to make mistakes, to correct them, to learn, to work together, to manage their own property & their own interests, to act for themselves, at their own risk & peril, on their own responsibility? Do we not see that this is what makes them men? Must we always start with the fatal premise that all those who govern are guardians & all the governed are wards? - Frederic Bastiat, Economic Harmonies, Van Nostrand, 964 edition, p. 382.

FREEDOM & FAILURE OR MISTAKES: Freedom to live includes freedom to fail. - Ridgway K. Foley Jr., THE FREEMAN, 4/74.

FREEDOM & FAITH IN FREEDOM: 28. Faith Works Miracles. There can be no turnabout from authoritarianism to liberty without faith. Let freedom reign! - Leonard E. Read, Castles in the Air, summary of ch. 28.

FREEDOM & FAITH: Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. - Tocqueville. - But it needs faith in liberty, in man, in justice, in rights, more than any other faith. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & FATHERLAND: Freedom has no fatherland. - Oriana Fallaci, A Man, 182.

FREEDOM & FEAR: Free men need not fear one another. - LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Sum. 75.

FREEDOM & FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM: We have used up all our inherited freedom like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them. - Thoreau. - Grow up and break the shell keeping you encaged. Under freedom you can fly with all your abilities like a grown up bird can with his. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM & FOOLISHNESS, THE RIGHT TO MAKE MISTAKES: The essence of freedom is the right of people to make fools of themselves. - O. B. Johannsen, COMMERCIAL & FINANCIAL CHRONICLE, letter, 22.3.56.

FREEDOM & FORCE, TOLERANCE & VOLUNTARYISM: If freedom is really what we anarchists wrack it up to be, it shouldn't be necessary to force it down the throat of anyone. - Ken Knudsen in THE VOLUNTARYIST, No. 6.

FREEDOM & FORCE: Who overcomes / By force, hath overcome but half his foe. - John Milton, Paradise Lost, I, 1667.

FREEDOM & FORCE: Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow. - Byron, Childe Harold, II, 1812.

FREEDOM & FREE ACCESS VS. MONOPOLIES: Free access to the world of matter, abolishing land monopoly; free access to the world of mind, abolishing idea monopoly; free access to an untaxed and unprivileged market, abolishing tariff monopoly and money monopoly - secure these and all the rest shall be added unto you. - Benjamin R. Tucker, in a short set of quotations from him compiled by Joe Labadie.

FREEDOM & FREE EXCHANGE: … for freedom is constituted in unrestricted power to exchange, which in turn means prosperity and peace. … Freedoms may be numbered from four to forty but these are but branches of the trunk freedom which is unrestricted exchange. Freedom, on the civilized plane, began with exchange and has expanded as exchange has expanded. - E. C. Riegel, The New Approach to Freedom, pp 5 & 13.

FREEDOM & FREE MINDS: Freedom is only for people who have at least freed their own mind. - J.Z., 2/75.

FREEDOM & FREE WILL: Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in the very face of otherwise overwhelming impulse. There lies freedom, indeed. - George Macdonald.

FREEDOM & FREE WILL: If you decide to do something evil, even god will not stop you. - Ascribed to Murray N. Rothbard. - But freedom loving fellow men, in support of your victims, may hold you responsible. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM & FREE WILL: The freedom of a free will is therefore morally indifferent. It can be exercised to do either good or evil. We use our freedom properly, says Augustine, when we act virtuously; we misuse it when we choose to act violently. "The will", he writes, "is then truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins." - Syntopicon, p. 994.

FREEDOM & FREE WILL: They prove with highly subtle arguments that they have no free will; but since they act as if they did have, let us not argue with them. - Bastiat, Economic Harmonies, Van Nostr&, 964 edition, p.496.

FREEDOM & FREEDOM FIGHERS: All too often the "freedom fighters" fight freedom. - J.Z., 28.1.77. - Most "freedom fighters" are not freedom fighters: They fight against freedom. - D & J.Z., 7.7.77. - Most freedom fighters" fight freedom - in many ways. - J.Z., 15.3.78.

FREEDOM & FREEDOM FIGHTERS: Most so-called freedom fighters and political terrorists use the word freedom only for convenience. As history has recorded only too well, in most instances where "freedom fighters" have succeeded, freedom has become a much less abundant commodity after their success. Russia, China, Cuba and Ethiopia are noteworthy examples of this. - Ringer, Restoring the American Dream, 38.

FREEDOM & FREEDOM FIGHTERS: Most of the "freedom fighters", unfortunately, do not also fight for freedom of the other side. - J.Z., 14.2.77. - They just compete with it for domination. - J.Z. 17.11.78. - They do not even favour all individual liberties for the own side. To that extent they fight against freedom on all sides. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM & FREEDOM FROM FEAR: For an unidentified benefit deceptively termed "freedom from fear" we are asked to surrender freedom itself. - Clarence Manion, The Key to Peace, 49.

FREEDOM & FREEDOM OF ACTION, GOVERNMENT: Freedom is but the possibility of a various and infinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, but yet real activity. The ardent desire for freedom, therefore, is at first only too frequently suggested by the deep-felt consciousness of its absence. - Wilhelm von Humboldt, in Sprading, Liberty & the Great Libertarians, 110.

FREEDOM & FREEDOM OF ACTION: Unfortunately the notion of freedom has been eviscerated by the literary treatment devoted to it. … The concept of freedom has been narrowed to the picture of contemplative people shocking their generation. When we think of freedom, we are apt to confine ourselves to freedom of thought, freedom of the press, freedom of religious opinion. … This is a thorough mistake. … The literary expression of freedom deals mainly with frills. … In fact, freedom of action is the primary need. - A.N. Whitehead, Adventure of Ideas, N.Y., Mentor Books, 1955, p. 73.

FREEDOM & FREE-FOR-ALL: I am in favour of freedom for all but not necessarily in favour of a free-for-all. - Michael Green, 18.12.90.

FREEDOM & FRUSTRATION: Freedom is not the mere absence of frustration of whatever kind; this would inflate the meaning of the word until it meant too much or too little. - Isaiah Berlin. Two Concepts of Liberty.

FREEDOM & GENIUS: Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859, 3. - As if freedom for creative activities were not also of great importance for people with minor abilities or talents. Many genies have largely flourished even in times that were not free. They were lucky to find sponsors. How many more perished, or never fully developed, before they were successful, we may never know. Even under the totalitarian Soviet regime great scholars and inventors - as long as their scholarship and inventions did not threaten the regime, lived a privileged and subsidized existence. And how many people with genius have recognized the full range of liberties and appreciated them, at least intellectually? An ideas archive and talent registry could establish an essential market for ideas and talents, one that would bring demand for and supply of them systematically together, in a special and world-wide market for them. This opportunity they have never had so far. - J.Z., 5.4.89, 7.4.00.

FREEDOM & GOALS, ENDS, AIMS, PURPOSES: True, freedom is not man's goal, but without it man can never achieve his goals. - Leonard E. Read, Then Truth Will Out, 91. - The same could be said about much money. It itself is not a goal - but without it not many other wanted things can be bought. To that extent money might be termed "liquid freedom". - J.Z., 15.4.00.

FREEDOM & GOODNESS: But what is Freedom? Rightly understood, a universal licence to be good. - Hartley Coleridge, Liberty. - Liberty includes also the right to make mistakes at the own expense and risk. Since "goodness" is very differently interpreted, this kind of rule for all more or less despotic States, of territorial, exclusive and enforced utopias. Thus it leads to intolerance, oppression and aggression rather than to the peace and progress of voluntarism and panarchism. - J.Z., 6.4.89, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & GOVERNMENT: "… freedom is … not a political grant from government."- From GAZETTE TELEGRAPH, Colorado Springs, a freedom newspaper, masthead text.

FREEDOM & GOVERNMENT: Freedom cannot be achieved through the LEVIATHAN. - J.Z., n.d.

FREEDOM & GOVERNMENT: Freedom is - no government. - Dangerous Buttons, No. 262. - I would rather say: Freedom is the best government. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM & GOVERNMENT: Freedom is the negation of any kind of government. - Pelletier, in LERNZIEL ANARCHIE, No. 3.

FREEDOM & GOVERNMENT: Government cannot give man freedom but can only take it away from him. - Robert Charlton, FREEDOM MAGAZINE, Spring 74.

FREEDOM & GOVERNMENT: Let's draw the line for freedom and keep the government behind it. - B.V. Brooks, Jr., THE WESTPORT NEWS, Connecticut, Aug. 25, 72, quoted in THE FREEMAN, Jan. 73.

FREEDOM & GOVERNMENT: Our freedom is growing less day by day - and it makes no difference who is in government. - Mark Tier, FREE ENTERPRISE, 8/74.

FREEDOM & GOVERNMENT: The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. - Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826. - That applies only to INCOMPLETE liberty. - Complete liberty would be hard to impossible to defeat. It could largely fight with the soldiers, officers and citizens of its opponents. - Restrained liberty is no match for unrestrained government. - J.Z., 21.4.00. Unrestrained liberty is! 7.5.00.

FREEDOM & GOVERNMENT: What citizen of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom? - J.S. Mill, The Subjection of Women, IV, 1869. - What government has ever offered a good and skillful administration? - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM & GOVERNMENTS: Freedom had its origin never in a government. It was always established by subjects. The history of freedom is a history of resistance. The history of freedom is a history of the limitation of government power, not its enlargement. - Thomas Woodrow Wilson, in a re-translation from a German translation.

FREEDOM & GREATNESS: Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Einstein, Out of My Later Years, 1950, 7.

FREEDOM & HAPPINESS: ... just as Bentham had held that freedom for each individual to judge and pursue his own interests was the chief condition of material happiness, so Spencer believes that the law or equal freedom for each individual supplies the chief means to the happiness which consists in energy of faculty. - Ernest Barker, Political Thought In England 1848 to 1914, 84.

FREEDOM & HARM: Although man should have the highest feasible degree of freedom, this degree of freedom does not include the ability to harm others with impunity. - Paul Lepanto, Return to Reason, 105. - One should at least distinguish between doing someone physical harm, injuring them bodily and harming them economically, by free competition. In the latter case his rights are not infringed. Thus it would be better to speak always of not infringing the rights and liberties of others rather than of not "harming" them. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & HARM: To be free means to be able to do everything that does no harm to anybody else. Thus the exercise of the natural right of every man has not other limit than those which guarantee the other members of society the same rights. These limits can only be determined by law. - French Constitution of 1791.

FREEDOM & HISTORY, PEOPLES & DESPOTISM: Only the history for free peoples is worth being studied. The history of people who live under despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes. - Nicholas Chamfort, Of Aphorisms, p. 77. - Does that mean that no historical studies are worthwhile because peoples were never free and that a whole population (infants, criminals and mental cases included) can never be fully free? - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM & HISTORY: History as progress in the consciousness of freedom. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, according to Knauer's Lexikon. - "The History of the World is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." - Hegel, introduction to Philosophy of History, 1832, tr. John Sibree.

FREEDOM & HISTORY: Only as free individuals can we reverse the course of history. - Ray L. Colvard, THE FREEMAN, 1/73. - When we have achieved freedom for us, we have already reversed the course or trend of history. A reversal in the sense of changing the past is, naturally, not possible. - J.Z., 13.4.00. - I wrote that before I read the following note: "Once we are free individuals the course of history will already be reversed. Better: Free individuals could reverse the course of history? (That) does not imply that we are already free but that some could make a start with practising their liberty to achieve a reversal. - J.Z., n.d., probably 1973.

FREEDOM & HUMAN NATURE: For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all capacities and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account. The less this natural development of man is interfered with by ecclesiastical or political guardianship, the more efficient and harmonious will human personality become, the more will it become the measure of the intellectual culture of the society in which it has grown. This is the reason that all great culture periods in history have been periods of political weakness, for political systems are always set upon the mechanizing and not the organic development of social forces. State and culture are irreconcilable opposites. … - Rudolf Rocker, quoted in Horowitz: The Anarchists, p. 191.

FREEDOM & HUMAN RIGHTS: Freedom is the condition in which every rational being can practise his individual rights unhindered. - J.Z., n.d.

FREEDOM & HUMAN RIGHTS: It's surprising that among the many newly proposed "freedoms" and "rights" nobody proposed as a human right "a freedom to steal and assault". - J.Z., n.d. - Apparently, a minimum of common sense is still left. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM & HUMAN SPIRIT: "… it is freedom's turn to revive the human spirit by the challenges of the infinite horizon." - Jack Williamson & James E. Gunn, Star Bridge, 210.

FREEDOM & IDEAS: Freedom is the law of the validity of the idea. - Bauch, cited by Haensel in: Kants Lehre vom Widerstandsrecht, S. 10.

FREEDOM & IDEAS: One can replace one idea by others but that of liberty one can't. - Boerne. - Many ideas can be replaced by others and many different freedom ideas are replaced by other freedom ideas or even by anti-freedom ideas - at least in the minds of some. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & IGNORANCE: Ignorance deprives men of freedom because they do not know what alternatives there are. - Ralph Varton Perry, quoted in THE FREEMAN, 7/74. - Are the alternatives anywhere fully listed, together? - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM & IMAGINATION: People only desire the freedom which is within their imagination. - Tom Stoddard? The Dog it Was that Died.

FREEDOM & IMPUSIVE ACTIONS, WHIMS, EMOTIONAL DRIVES ETC.: A man is unfree in behaving impulsively, not because he would necessarily have chosen to act otherwise, but because he did not choose to act at all, his behaviour was really not his action at all, whatever the motive, causes, or origins of the behaviour. - B.R. Barber, Superman & Common Man, 55. - This overlooks that freedom as a general condition can well prevail if people act irrationally - at their own expense and risk. There is not only a freedom to act rationally. - J.Z., 17.11.76.

FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE FROM THE WILL OF OTHERS: Freedom is the independence of everybody from any foreign will. - Popular view. - Should the criminal be independent from the wills of his victims? His victims should, indeed, be free from his will but he should not be free from their will - after he has committed or threatened to commit his victimizing act. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE: The greater a man's freedom, the more does he become dependent upon himself, and well-disposed towards others. - Wilhelm von Humboldt, in Sprading, Liberty & the Great Libertarians, 105.

FREEDOM & INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM: Freedom from any central body that is not responsible to the individual because the individual cannot opt out from its services and diservices. An end to compulsory membership and enforced obedience. - J.Z., 19.3.99., 21.1.99.

FREEDOM & INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY, VOLUNTARISM: Freedom is the absolute right of all adult men and women to seek permission for their actions only from their own conscience and reason, and to be determined in their actions only by their own will, and consequently to be responsible only to themselves, and then to the society to which they belong, but only insofar as they have made a free decision to belong to it. - Bakunin, Gesammelte Werke, III, 9. - Seldes.

FREEDOM & INEVITABILITY: Our conception of the degree of freedom often varies according to differences in the point of view from which we regard the event, but every human action appears to us as a certain combination of freedom & inevitability. In every action we examine we see a certain measure of freedom & a certain measure of inevitability. & always the more freedom we see in any action the less inevitability do we perceive, & the more inevitability the less freedom. - Tolstoy, in G.B., Syntopicon, p. 992.

FREEDOM & INITIATIVE: Anyone can begin the practice of freedom whenever he chooses to do so. - The Free Man's Almanach, compiled by Leonard E. Read. - Anyone can initiate the practice of some liberties to introduce more and more of them and others. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & INITIATIVE: Capability to initiate a new condition. - Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Vorlaender.

FREEDOM & INITIATIVE: For freedom, as Mr. Graham Wallace has finely said, implies the chance of continuous initiative. - H.L. Laski, in David Nicholls, The Pluralist State, 1975, essay: The Pluralistic State, p. 149. - The remark by Wallace was in an article in NEW STATESMAN, Sep. 25, 1915. - This requires individual secessionism and exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities, no matter how often this option is ignored. - J.Z., 8.8.86 & 17.4.00.

FREEDOM & INITIATIVE: Freedom is constant opportunity to take initiatives. - Wallas. - Re-translated from a German translation.

FREEDOM & INITIATIVE: In my opinion, we must understand freedom in a very positive sense: it is the condition of initiating activity… - Paul Goodman, quoted in "Patterns of Anarchy", p. 55, by Krimerman & Perry.

FREEDOM & INSTINCT: To desire freedom is an instinct. To secure it requires intelligence. It must be comprehended and self-asserted. To petition for it is to stultify oneself. - E. C. Riegel.

FREEDOM & INSTINCT: Ulrich von Beckerath underlined part of the confession of a 27 year old student, who had stabbed to death his father, mother & brother. He confessed that he had committed this crime because he was always treated by his parents, in spite of his age, as if he were still a child & was continuously supervised. He could no longer stand this treatment. - Clipping from NEUE ZUERCHER ZEITUNG, 12.6.1956.

FREEDOM & INTERDEPENDENCY: We need freedom because we are interdependent. - Leonard E. Read, THE FREEMAN, 7/74.

FREEDOM & INVESTMENTS: Freedom. The Best Investment. - Rene Baxter, Tax Revolt, in FREEDOM TODAY, p. 10. - Who is going to invest with me i.e. in a libertarian encyclopedia, a libertarian library, complete and permanent libertarian publishing, in affordable alternative media? Aren't these more worthwhile speculations than speculations merely upon riches through Internet stocks in Internet innovations? - J.Z., 10.4.00.

FREEDOM & ISOLATIONISM: Free men have no right to live and work in isolation if they wish to retain the bliss of their heritage. Rather it is their duty to crash into the lairs of the slave-makers and slave-holders, so that the rest of the world may become free and stay free. - D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought.

FREEDOM & ITS ABUSE: What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its use is the abuse of it. - Lichtenberg. - Freedom does not include what is wrongly called abuse of freedom, i.e., the infringement of the rights and liberties of others. Freedom for all does not authorize such actions. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & ITS INTELLECTUALS: The intellectual leaders in the movement for liberty have all too often confined their attention to those uses of liberty closes to their hearts, and have made little effort to comprehend those restrictions of liberty which did not directly affect (*) them. - F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, introduction. - (*) rather: "interest". For all restrictions of liberty do directly or indirectly affect the lives of all, whether they are aware of this or not. Thus its spread can never be too wide nor its application too extensive. But no one should be forced to take up all its options. We must all grow towards full freedom, and the full maturity it can bring us, at our own speed, in accordance with our knowledge and abilities. - J.Z. , 6.5.89.

FREEDOM & ITS POWER & STRENGTH, MILITIA: Whilst freedom is true to itself, everything becomes subject to it. - Edmund Burke, Speech, at Bristol. - If only the lovers of freedom were to mobilize all its ideas they would become invincible. In other words, they remain defeated because they do not love it and its literature enough not even enough to mobilize all of it in its cause, using all affordable & efficient alternative media for freedom of expression and information. - J.Z., 10.4.00.

FREEDOM & ITS PRICE: The price of freedom is the willingness to do sudden battle, anywhere, anytime, & with utter recklessness. - Robert Heinlein, The Puppet Masters, XXXV. - With some foresight & rationality this desperate last step can often be avoided. There may be no cheaper, easier, faster & more effective way to defend liberty against all future attacks than to make, finally, all pro-freedom writings permanently, cheaply, easily & fast enough accessible. This could be done on microfiche, floppy disks, CD-ROMs & online or on other affordable alternative media - but it ought to be done soon. It has already been delayed for thousands of years. Never before could it be done as cheaply & easily as well as by as few people as it could be done now. - J.Z., 3.4.00.

FREEDOM & ITS PROBLEMS: Freedom is the best cure for all the evils which freshly acquired freedom produces. - Macauley. - Recently acquired liberties are not yet well understood and handled by the liberated. Schiller warned: Beware of the slave when he breaks his chains. But you have nothing to fear of a free man. The problems and evils involved consist in not respecting the equal liberties of others. - J.Z., 6.4.00.

FREEDOM & ITS TROUBLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The trouble with freedom is that it's so much … trouble: nobody to tell you what to do, so you have to do what you think best; nobody to regard you as a valuable proprty, so you have to take care of yourself; nobody to imbue your life with meaning, because that's your job. Freedom, as opposed to license, implies a great deal of skull sweat and other forms of hard labor. It is not for sissies. But the compensations are transcendant, for the strong. - Jerry Pournelle, in FAR FRONTIERS, Winter 85, p. 137, in introduction to: Ronald Anthony Cross, Golden Dawn.

FREEDOM & ITS USEFULNESS: Freedom is that faculty which enlarges the usefulness of other faculties. - I. Kant, as quoted by Seldes.

FREEDOM & ITS VIOLATION: Freedom is only a "convenience"word used (*) to justify a thousand different violations of freedom. - Ringer, Dream, 18. - (*) widely or commonly - J.Z.

FREEDOM & JONESTOWN: Which is the more unspeakable, Jonestown or seeing our each moment die in unfreedom? - Quoted from: "Be Free", in TC 105p68 of 24.7.82.

FREEDOM & JUDGMENT: The free man is in essence the voluntary executive of his own moral judgment. - Bertrand de Jouvenal. - This is an abstract formulation of panarchism without any hint towards its concrete realization. - J.Z., 6.4.89, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & JUSTICE: Freedom is nothing but justice. - J.G. Seume, Autobiographie, 96.

FREEDOM & JUSTICE: The cliché "freedom isn't free", describes an undesirable present fact of reality... It certainly should not be mistaken for the ideal or for the condition of a truly libertarian society. ... Man has a right to justice - at the expense of the aggressor, if he exists. - R.A. Childs, Jr., LC 10/7/72.

FREEDOM & JUSTICE: The formula for justice should be: "Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man." This is a formula hostile to war, which exalts authority, regimentation and obedience; it is a formula favorable to peaceful industry, for it provides a maximum of stimulus with an absolute equality of opportunity; it is conformable to Christian morals, for its holds every person sacred, and frees him from aggression; … - Herbert Spender, in Durant, Herbert Spencer, p. 50, Little Blue Books.

FREEDOM & JUSTICE: The institution of freedom, if properly defined, suffices to render justice to each individual. John Stuart Mill said: "The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it." - My own definition of freedom, if practiced, would assure universal justice: No man-concocted restraints against the release of creative energy.(*) This is to say that no one would inhibit any individual in any way whatsoever except to curb his destructive actions: fraud, violence, misrepresentation, predation, and the like. - Leonard E. Read, Who's Listening? 295. - (*) Rather, as many and only as many as some people desire for themselves! Freedom lovers do not have to be in a constant state of liberation war against the statists. The best way to teach statists, those who are teachable at all, is to leave them to their own fate. We have the large example before our eyes that even totalitarian regimes, after dozens of millions of blood-sacrifices, do finally make some concessions in order to benefit by some of the additional productivity which even degrees of economic freedom can already provide. When all the damages of their interventionist policies have to be born exclusively by themselves and by their voluntary followers, while all around them other people benefit from large degrees of freedom or even full freedom practices, this kind of enlightenment will proceed much faster, if not at the level of the top leadership then at the grassroots level, at which individuals are free to secede & to select a better future for themselves and their families. - PIOT! J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & JUSTICE: They wish to be free, and know not how to be just. - Abbe Joseph Sieyes, 10 August 1789.

FREEDOM & JUSTICE: True freedom is nothing else than justice. - Seume.

FREEDOM & KNOWLEDGE OF FULL FREEDOM: Full freedom knowledge knows not only what is to be the extent of future liberties but also how to achieve full liberty, i.e., it embraces all rightful and effective freedom tactics and strategies, defence-, liberation-, revolutionary, as well as enlightenment efforts and methods. - J.Z., 9.9.86, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & LAISSEZ FAIRE: Laissez Faire =/= negligence, arbitrariness, interventionism. fraud or willfulness towards others - J.Z.

FREEDOM & LAISSEZ FAIRE: Remove the fetters! Free the market.

FREEDOM & LAUGHTER, HUMOUR, SMILES: The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter. - Zero Mostel, in THE READER'S DIGEST, 9/85.

FREEDOM & LAUGHTER, HUMOUR: One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter. - Harry Ashmore, READER'S DIGEST, 3/80, p. 114.

FREEDOM & LAW: Nevertheless, liberty can be abridged by law. That is precisely the problem of the good man living under unjust laws. If, as Montesquieu says, "liberty can consist only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will", then government and laws interfere with liberty when they command or prohibit acts contrary to the choice of a good man. - The conception of freedom as the condition of those who are rightly governed - who are commanded to do only what they would do anyway - seems to be analogically present in Spinoza's theory of human bondage and human freedom. It is there accompanied by a denial of the will's freedom of choice. - Syntopicon, p. 995.

FREEDOM & LAW: "… only when freedom is established in all countries, including the Soviet Union, can the world expect a peace rooted in the respect for law…"- Christopher Norborg, Operation Moscow, Latimer House, London, 1948. - Alas, most laws are not respectable and lead to war rather than to peace. - J.Z., 4.4.00.

FREEDOM & LAW: Even a dictatorship cannot endanger liberty if it is practised upon the basis of laws. - Popular prejudice, based upon the assumptions that mostly laws protect liberties rather than infringe them. Sooner or later the lessons posed by the laws of totalitarian regimes will be learned. - J.Z., 7.4.00.

FREEDOM & LAW: Freedom does require breaking "the law" but means being obliged only to obey a law one has chosen oneself - or would have chosen if one were rational enough. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & LAW: Freedom is to be above, not under the law. Or: Freedom is to be above the law, not under it. - J.Z. 8.8.72. - "Freedom under the law" - is a rather sick joke - if one takes the sheer number of laws, their pages and their quality or lack of quality into consideration. - J.Z., 11.4.00. - Herbert Spencer's project to prove the impracticability of all legal interventionism from the historical tradition of legislation has still not been realized. Not even the proposals of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson on introducing sunset clauses into all laws and regulations have been realized. Shall such proposals and personal law and voluntary taxation proposals have to wait for further centuries for their realization? - Let individuals secede from laws, jurisdictions, constitutions, States, armies, unions, all compulsory institutions, as long as they are peaceful citizen, just doing their own things to and for themselves. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM & LAW: Freedom under the law is an ideal that is nowhere realized. In practice, our liberties are restricted by numerous laws beyond the influence of individuals & scarcely subjected to the influence of the masses, laws to which numerous people never could or would have given their consent. - J.Z., 15.10.53.

FREEDOM & LAWS: Freedom consists primarily in not being forced to do anything that is not commanded by law. - Montesquieu, Gesetze und Prinzipien der Politik, S. 132. - Perhaps he was not free enough to speak up against oppressive laws. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & LIBERALISM: Liberalism and freedom lead inevitably to revolution and civil war. - Popular opinion. Indeed, if you represent any kind of despotism then this is your view of them. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & LIBERTINES: Some people appreciate freedom only in the form of sexual licence & other pleasures. - J.Z., 1965.

FREEDOM & LIBERTY: The only unfailing & permanent source of improvement is liberty, since by it there are as many possible independent centers of improvement as there are individuals. - John Stuart Mill. - One could say the same on panarchism for volunteer communities. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & LICENSE: None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. - Milton, TENURE OF KINGS AND MAGISTRATES.

FREEDOM & LICENSE: Only a blunt mind would equate freedom with license. - John E. Nestler, THE FREEMAN, 10/73.

FREEDOM & LIFE: Freedom is the breath of life. - Delp.

FREEDOM & LIFE: How wonderful this earth and this life could be - for free people. - J.Z., 7/82.

FREEDOM & LIFE: No one loses his liberty - except with his life. - Heinrich Matthias, Graf von Mansfeld, by Weidner, Apophth, 346.

FREEDOM & LIFE: There is no life without freedom. - From film: The Ordeal of Dr. Mudd.

FREEDOM & LIMITED GOVERNMENT: Freedom is a basic human right which can exist onlyb under a government of limited powers. - Paul Blakewell: 13 Curious Errors About Money, motto.

FREEDOM & LIMITED GOVERNMENT: Ours is the task of re-educating the public in the essentiality and desirability of maintaining and strengthening (J.Z.: and very greatly expanding!) limitations upon government in the interest of preserving necessary human freedom. Remember that where government is unlimited no citizen is free. - Clarence Manion, The Key to Peace, 68.

FREEDOM & LIMITED GOVERNMENT: Properly limited government encourages maximum freedom. Real freedom means the least government - government conspicuous by its absence - with sufficient power only to protect life, liberty, and property from frauds, thieves, and murderers. Real freedom means the full right of ownership and to make decisions for one's self and one's family. The right to vote - while an important mechanism if properly used - should be employed sparingly by the people and by lawmaking bodies. Lawmaking activities ought to be directed, for a change, toward the removal of government interferences and restrictions already on the law books. - When government is confined to its proper, limited scope, there will be no necessity for opinion poll-takers to find out what Mr. and Mrs. America think. Each one then will decide for himself - privately, separately, individually - and the matter will concern no one else when real freedom once again exists behind its façade. - John C. Sparks, Behind the Façade, Essays on Liberty, vol. XII, p. 402.

FREEDOM & LIVING ONE'S LIFE: If historical experience teaches anything it is this: Man cannot base his happiness and his freedom upon the unhappiness and the lack of freedom of another person. - LERNZIEL ANARCHIE, No. 3.

FREEDOM & LIVING ONE'S LIFE: No one can effectively live a life for another and none should try to do so. - Ridgway K. Foley Jr., THE FREEMAN, 5/74. - I would rather say that this is their business - if they want to miss out on so much of life. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & LOVE: Freedom is like love: the more you give, the more you get. - Rowena George, FREEDOM MAGAZINE, Spring 74.

FREEDOM & LOVE: If you love something; set it free. If it comes back to you it is truly yours. If it does not - it never was. - Anonymous. - From: FREEDOM TODAY, Jan. 76.

FREEDOM & MAJORITIES: "… the tyranny of a majority might under some circumstances be worse than the tyranny of a single despot. - It becomes, then, the first duty of a free man to respect the conviction of his fellow man and to do no violence to it as long as his fellow man observes the same bounds and does not attempt to accomplish by coercion what he could not achieve by persuation." - Rudolf Rocker, Pioneers of American Freedom, L.A., 1949.

FREEDOM & MAN: For a man without freedom is less than human... - John Dalgleish, in Mises bibliography, 111.

FREEDOM & MEDDLING: I can't back any restrictive measure on the freedom of anybody but an apprehended criminal. Read history. It has taught me not to meddle, it has taught me that no man should think himself clever enough or good enough to dare it. - C.M. Kornbluth, The Syndic, Sphere SF, 1953, Faber & Faber, London, 64, p. 158.

FREEDOM & MILITIA: To act as a free, moral and responsible being requires today a large amount of law-breaking and will thus lead to prosecution. For instance: smuggling, black marketeering, illegal immigration and emigration, tax evasion. Injust laws ought to be broken - if one can get away with it. See my article on "folk crimes". But caution does often demand that we abide by unjust laws that we cannot safely break or ignore. Conscience demands only that we respect the equal individual rights of others and law that clearly and exclusively uphold them. - To live really free and not like hunted or caged animals, without withdrawing from society on islands, boats, farms, in the wilderness, in ghost towns etc. requires rightful and efficient defensive organization, weapons and training. Perhaps we ought to act like some of the slaves in the Middle Ages did. They ran away together and palisaded themselves in new towns, rapidly, before their pursuers could catch them. Now no "new frontiers" are available or required but the exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities is: Experimental freedom, panarchies, alternative institutions replacing territorial States and based upon unanimous consent among their members. People might still somewhat concentrate in certain areas but this should not lead to them attempting to establish their own and exclusive territorial system there, dominating dissenters living in the area. Their tolerance towards the experiments or traditions of others, combined with a rightful and suitable defensive force against interference should enable them to cope with the remaining fanatics who do want to subjugate them. The peacefulness and productivity of the new communities will soon speak for them. - J.Z., n.d. & 4.4.00.

FREEDOM & MINDING ONE'S OWN BUSINESS: Freedom is the opportunity to mind one's own business.

FREEDOM & MONEY: And few tools, if any, are more important to the champion of freedom than a sound monetary system. - Hans Sennholz, Inflation or Gold Standard, p. 3.

FREEDOM & MONEY: Yes, of course. All I want is the freedom to make money. Do you know what that freedom implies? - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 451. - Ayn Rand didn't either! - Making some government paper money in a market restricted by its monetary despotism isn't the same as earning a kind of competitive money under monetary freedom or even making or issuing and accepting your own kind of money under this freedom. - J.Z., 7.5.00. -

FREEDOM & MORAL & SOCIAL REFORM: Reflecting a supreme confidence in the ability of people to govern themselves, Morse advocated the theory that the first and only rule of moral and social reform is freedom. Give the individual the reins and he will guide himself to goals he now appears incapable of attaining. If we desire the realization of justice and truth on earth, we ought to turn men loose, allowing human nature to seek its own level. Give thought to the winds, without concern for the outcome, and humanity can be expected to reflect the same amazing order that physical nature manifests all about us. - Reichert, Partisans of Freedom, 53/54. - That proposal is also based on the realization that some people want themselves governed by others - as long as they can stand that. Then they will either learn from this experience or they will not. Anyhow, they will have to bear their own costs and risks. As products of nature themselves and also possessed of some reason, people should be able to achieve between themselves at least the freedom, order, tolerance and peace that exists to a large extent between non-human lives.

FREEDOM & MORALITY: "Freedom requires morality" say some (M. Magrath) whilst others reply that "morality requires freedom" (Bob Howard).

FREEDOM & MORALITY: Morality requires freedom. - Bob Howard.

FREEDOM & MORALITY: Since there is not good act which is not prescribed by the moral law, the whole of liberty, as opposed to license, consists in doing what the moral law commands. - Syntopicon, 994.

FREEDOM & MUTUALISM: The theory of Mutualism, on the other hand, maintains that the interests of society at large are best served by the same means which go farthest to promote the interests of the individual: freedom from restraint, as long as the individual's activities are non-invasive; elimination of all factors which artificially limit man's opportunities; voluntary organization of society into associations as the need for them arises in order to carry on such activities as are beyond the power of the single individual; in short a voluntary creation & mutual exchange of commodities under conditions which exclude special privileges & state-protected monopolies. - Schwartz, What Is Mutualism? p. 47.

FREEDOM & NATIONALISM: When a contemporary of Thomas Paine said: "Where freedom is, there is my country", Paine replied: "Where freedom is not, there is mine."

FREEDOM & NATURAL RIGHTS: The natural right of every man is "the liberty each man has to use his own power … for the preservation of his own nature, that is to say, of his own life … and consequently of doing anything which in his own judgment and reason he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto." This liberty or natural right belongs to man only in a state of nature. When men leave the state of nature and enter the commonwealth, they surrender this natural liberty in exchange for a civil liberty which, according to Hobbes, consists in nothing more than their freedom to do what the law of the state does not prohibit, or to omit doing what the law does not command. - Syntopicon, p. 993/4.

FREEDOM & NECESSITIES: Bread is freedom, Freedom is bread.- Georg Herwegh, Gedichte und Prosa, 91, Reclam edition.

FREEDOM & NECESSITY: Each system is at the same time a system of freedom and of necessity. - Hegel. - Is anything more necessary for living beings than freedom? - J.Z., 6.7.92. Are totalitarian or despotic systems free and necessary? - A lot of nonsense has been spouted unter the name of freedom and is still quoted without critical comments. - J.Z. 9.3.00.

FREEDOM & NECESSITY: Freedom is necessary in all human activities. - After Roche III, Bastiat, 60. - Only in-human or anti-human activities can do without freedom or, rather, they suppress it. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & NEEDS: Freedom has no needs. But anyone who can think long-range will likely conclude, sooner or later, that "the need is mine". - Leonard E. Read, Let Freedom Reign, 120. - There is all too much talk about "needs" today, mostly expressed in claims against others to fulfill these "needs". One rarely hears anyone complain: "I need freedom!" - J.Z., n.d. & 14.4.00.

FREEDOM & NO: Freedom - I won't! … F = I.W. - Eric Frank Russell, The Great Explosion, 133.

FREEDOM & NON-INITIATION OF FORCE: May the Non-Initiation of Force Be With You. - Dangerous Buttons, No. 275.

FREEDOM & NONMOLESTATION: "… a condition of non-molestation among persons." - Dean Russell, in: My Freedom Depends on Yours, in THE FREEMAN, 12/67, p. 749. On page 750 he wrote: "… freedom is a condition of reciprocal non-molestation." He made the same remark in some FEE publication already in September 1953. "My freedom depends on yours" is also reproduced in FEE's Essays on Liberty, II, 398-420.

FREEDOM & NUCLEAR WAR THREAT: The 21^st century will be free or it won't be. - Leon Kaspersky, PROTOS, Nov. 70.

FREEDOM & OBJECTIONS, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT: Every rightful and sensible freedom option encounters not just a few but a whole host of objections, myths, errors and wrong premises among the majority of viewers, listeners and readers, so that freedom of expression, without freedom to experiment, cannot get very far or fast. - J.Z., 9.7.89.

FREEDOM & OBSTACLES: I am no longer so enthusiastic about the wonderfully beneficial effects of obstacles. - Frederic Bastiat.

FREEDOM & OPPORTUNITIES: Genuine merit consists according to Sybel in full opportunities for all people of talent and merit. This overlooks that this is at least as well possible in a good monarchy as in a good democracy. - Roscher, Grundlagen, par. 88. - Is there such a thing as a good monarchy or a good democracy? - Only if all their members were free to choose it and if their choice applied only to themselves. - J.Z., 4.4.00.

FREEDOM & OPPORTUNITY, IN AN UNFREE WORLD: Freedom is the opportunity to live your life as you want to live it. (*)- Most of the rest of the world will remain unfree during the rest of your life. Most people will continue to lead what Thoreau called "lives of quite desperation"- paying high taxes, bowing to social pressures, working long hours with little to show for them, never having the time to do what they want to do, resigning themselves to loveless compromises that masquerade as marriages. - Fortunately, that doesn't have to be your life. - Even in an unfree world you can be free. - Harry Brown, How I found Freedom, in an Unfree World, 18 & 151. - (*) Provided "opportunity" is not meant to include "sufficient funds". - J.Z., 25/11/76. - His view of freedom was criticized in REASON, 3/74, p. 27/28.

FREEDOM & ORDER: "Liberty - the mother not the daughter of order." - r. - "Observant readers will have noticed the quotation from Proudhon printed across the top of the title page in the last issue. It will remain there as long as I am editor, as a small tribute to Benjamin R. Tucker, who used it similarly in his remarkable journal 'Liberty'. Where many men are freely making their own arrangements, the best arrangement will be most speedily evolved, and bad customs most speedily altered. Liberty is a pre-requisite to the sweet and orderly running of society: it is the mother not the daughter of order. This is our faith. See to it only that liberty involves individual responsibility for acts committed; and then repress with all possible sternness that primitive vice: the desire to make others bend to your will. In the long run all will benefit." - Henry Meulen, THE INDIVIDUALIST, Dec. 49, p. 43.

FREEDOM & ORDER: A sense of the possibility of a life at once orderly and free dawns upon the heart and mind. - Ebenezer Howard, Tomorrow, A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, 1998, London, 2^nd. ed., 1^st ed.: 1902, Garden Cities of Tomorrow.

FREEDOM & ORDER: Freedom is not the daughter but the mother of order. - Proudhon. (Liberte non pas la fille, mais la mere de l'ordre.)

FREEDOM & ORDER: Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. - Theodore Roosevelt. - A compulsory mixture of both tends to destroy both. Their free interaction only can achieve the harmonious growth of both. - J.Z., 9.7.92. - Whoever gives orders to others is also not quite free. Obviously, the ones being ordered and who have to follow orders, under threats, are not free, either. And the kind of orders established by order-minded people are never very orderly but suffer from numerous and inherent internal conflicts. Collectively imposed compromises between order and freedom are inherently counter-productive. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & PANACEAS, PANARCHISM: I agree that freedom is not a panacea. Nothing is. But freedom is an essential ingredient which is rarely thought about until it is being lost. Perhaps that explains my constant emphasis. - Robert LeFevre, LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Fall 78. - If freedom is seen to include the possibility of voluntarily chosen degrees of unfreedom, or of panarchism, then it comes to a framework that embraces all options that are not victimizing involuntary victims. Insofar, all subjective and objective panaceas or utopias or ideal societies would be included, as options. But full freedom (without the un-freedom option for individuals) as a prescription for all people, as they are now, is certainly not a panacea but, rather, quite unrealistic except for the better freedom lovers. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM & PANARCHISM: "… people who have to be persuaded to be free don't deserve to be…" - L. Neil Smith, FREEDOM NETWORK NEWS, No. 51.

FREEDOM & PANARCHISM: One can found nothing lasting except on liberty. Nothing that already exists can maintain itself or operate with full efficiency without the free interplay of all its active parts. Otherwise, energy is wasted, parts wear out rapidly, and there are, in fact, breakdowns and serious accidents. Thus I demand, for each and every member of human society, freedom of association according to inclination and of activity according to aptitude, in other words, the absolute right to choose the political surroundings in which to live, and to ask for nothing more. - dePuydt, Panarchy.

FREEDOM & PASSIONS: No man is free who is a slave to the flesh. - Seneca.

FREEDOM & PASSIONS: None can be free who is the slave to, and ruled by, his passions. - Pythagoras.

FREEDOM & PATHS: "A path for liberty" - One path is not enough! All paths for liberty! - J.Z., 1.8.82.

FREEDOM & PATRIOTISM: Where liberty dwells, there is my country. Give me liberty to know, to utter, & to argue freely according to conscience - above all liberties. - John Milton, Areopagitica.

FREEDOM & PEACE, WAR & DEFENCE, DENATIONALIZATION, MILITIA: De-nationalize and demonopolize war and defence - if you want peace and freedom. - J.Z., n.d.

FREEDOM & PEACE: Freedom, like peace, is a necessary condition for all manner of other goods which are themselves indisputably positive and substantial. - K.W. Watkins, ed., In Defence of Freedom, p. 159, essay: The Philosophy of Freedom.

FREEDOM & PEACE: Full freedom, including the freedom not to be free, according to one's choice, is the only road to real peace. - J.Z., 75.

FREEDOM & PEACE: We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, Second Inaugural Address, 21.1.1957. - I seek freedom, knowing that freedom is the climate or cause of peace. - Contradictions to nonsense spouted by famous persons in public ought to be much better organized, almost automated. One precondition for this would be e.g. the establishment of an ideas archive and an encyclopaedia of the best refutations so far found to popular errors, myths and prejudices. Another would be an ever growing encyclopedia of all the definitions so far advanced for any significant term. Their very number already would tend to depreciate or cast in doubt any particular definition advanced, unless it has stood the test of time under continuous criticism. - J.Z., 10.4.00.

FREEDOM & PEACE: When everybody is free then there will, obviously, be peace. - But what is freedom? Shall we make war to determine the correct definition? - J.Z.

FREEDOM & PEACEFUL ACTION: "… the freedom of everyone to act peaceably in his own behalf."- Earl Zarbin, THE FREEMAN, 6/73.

FREEDOM & PEACEFULNESS: Leave me free to do anything I please - stupid or brilliant - so long as it is peaceful and not injurious to others. - Leonard E. Read, NOTES FROM FEE, 5/73.

FREEDOM & PEOPLE: Earth holds billions of people who not only fail to comprehend what you mean by freedom but wouldn't like it if you gave it to them. Poul Anderson, Kings Who Die, in: Seven Conquests, 32.

FREEDOM & PERFECTION, OBJECTIONS: But I can't help but think that the price of perfection is too high if it costs our freedom. - Gary Alan Ruse, Nanda, in ANALOG, 8/72, 156. - Nothing is perfect without freedom. - J.Z., 27.3.91. - Only freedom allows us to approach perfection. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM & PERSUASION: Anyone requiring persuasion to be free doesn't deserve to be. - L. Neil Smith, Brightsuit MacBear, 137. - But we have only 3 options to spread freedom: persuasion, example and force in its defence. Of these the easiest to attain and a freedom already largely realized, although not by using all the alternative media options, is persuasion. Or can we assume that without further persuasion or defence efforts we can already practise enough liberties among ourselves so that these examples will by themselves persuade others? - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM & PHILOSOPHY: The beginning and the end of all philosophy is - Freedom. - Schelling.

FREEDOM & PLAYS, DRAMA, THEATRE, WRITING & ACTING: Slavery is having to perform in a play written by someone else; freedom is having to write one's own play. - Thomas Szasz, Heresies, 47. - And one should have the option to perform in one's own play, too and the freedom to write something else than plays merely to entertain others. - J.Z., 8.6.92, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & POLITICIANS: The word no politician can understand. - FREE RADICAL, 2.

FREEDOM & POLITICS: Freedom has nothing to do with politics. - Hans Habe, Aftermath, 69.

FREEDOM & POWER OVER ONESELF: Freedom is the power that we have over ourselves. - Grotius. - Compare: Freedom is self-ownership.

FREEDOM & POWER: When power is concentrated, freedom is threatened. When power is used, freedom is curtailed. - John H. Howard, THE FREEMAN, April 67.

FREEDOM & POWER: I think in terms of freedom rather than power. - D.R., 13. ( I do not remember at present what this D.R. stands for. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM & POWER: They may indeed have power. They do not have freedom. - Wendy McElroy, comment to J. Neil Shulman's Rainbow Cadenza, 310.

FREEDOM & PREJUDICE: Freedom does not remove prejudice. It simply makes the individual pay for bad decisions. Example: I I refuse to hire black baskeball players, I will probably loose to teams without such a prejudice. - Fritz Knese, TC117p68.

FREEDOM & PRESSURE: Freedom is the absence of external pressure. Popular view. - One should at least add: pressure by other beings. For we live under air- or water pressure and even under light-pressure. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & PRISONERS, CONVICTS, CRIMINALS, OFFENDERS, CRIMINALS WITH VICTIMS, COERCION, INITIATORS OF FORCE: Freedom is only for non-aggressive people, i.e., those who do not initiate coercion. - J.Z., 6.1.83.

FREEDOM & PRIVILEGES: We talk a lot about freedom these days. When you dig to the bottom of this talk you realize that, first, very few know what freedom is and, secondly, still fewer want it. The fact is that what is generally called freedom consists of increases in wages (or handouts), more profits (or subsidies) and a bottomless abundance of privileges. For such things we - particularly the more affluent among us - are ready to lay freedom on the line. The essence of freedom, which is an inflexible respect for oneself, is being bartered every day for such trifles. - Frank Chodorov, Out of Step, 200.

FREEDOM & PROGRESS: "… Progress is not inevitable, and … freedom is not automatic."- Edward E. Coleson, THE FREEMAN, 10/73. - Compare: Freedom is not free.

REEDOM & PROGRESS: Freedom is the very essence of man's progress. To tamper with man's freedom is not only to injure him, to degrade him; it is to change his nature, to render him, insofar as such oppression is exercised, incapable of improvement; it is to strip him of his resemblance to the Creator, to stifle within him the noble breath of life with which he was endowed at his creation."- Frederic Bastiat, Economic Harmonies, 534. - Quoted in Roche III, Bastiat, 165.

FREEDOM & PROGRESS: If there are, anywhere in world history, the steps of a progress of mankind, then they have been taken or the freedom road and towards the light. - Jean Paul, Fragmente.

FREEDOM & PROGRESS: Progress, The Flower of Freedom. Heading of an article by Leonard E. Read, reproduced in THE INDIAN LIBERTARIAN, Sep. 1, 1966.

FREEDOM & PROPERTY: Freedom is the societal condition that exists when every individual has full (i.e. 100%) control over his own property. - Joseph A. Galambos, 1963.

FREEDOM & PROPERTY: Liberty consists in the safe & sacred possession of a man's property. - Fox, 1784, quoted by W. Roscher, I/236 & in Grundlagen, page 211.

FREEDOM & PROPERTY: Property the instrument of freedom. - Heading of chap. 11 of Citadel, Market & Altar, by Spencer Heath.

FREEDOM & PROSPERITY: There was freedom and men thrived. - Frank Chodorov, Out of Step, 153.

FREEDOM & PROTECTION: They say a man needs protection - but he needs freedom and self-respect, arising from his own actions, still more. - J.Z., 29.10.87. - Self-protection and voluntary protective associations rather than monopolistic and coercive protection rackets by territorial States, which, by their "defence" efforts, in war and peace, cost us much more in lives, health, property and earnings than the combined efforts of all private criminals. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & REASON: "But if it is true that God leaves us free, that nothing in the natural order can be shown to subject one man to another even apart from the revealed will of God, it may still be relevant to ask what positively makes us free, in what does this freedom consist? For absolute freedom has no meaning, it must be defined. - 'Where there is no law, there is no freedom'' (II, par. 57). It is the law of nature which sets bounds to natural freedom (II, par. 8). … 'the Law of Nature … is the Law of Reason (I, par. 101). It is our reason, therefore, which promulgates to us the Law of Nature and it is our reason which makes us free. We are born Free as we are born Rational (II, par. 61), and the liberty of acting according to our own will, never from compulsion by the will of others, is grounded on the possession of reason (II, par. 63). - But reason means even more than this and has further consequences for natural liberty and equality. Conceived of as a law (the law of nature), or almost as a power, it is sovereign over all human action. It can dictate to a man as conscience does (II, par. 8) and to more than one man in the social situation, since it is given by God to be the rule betwixt man and man (II, par. 172). It is a quality too, in fact, it is the human quality which places man above the brutes, and when it is present to the full almost brings him up to the level of the angels (I, par. 58). … - It justifies in the first place the subordinate position of children, who though they are born to the full state of equality are not born in it (II, par. 55). They only attain freedom when they reach what we still call the age of reason. …" - From Peter Laslett's introduction to John Locke's Two Treaties of Government", Mentor Book, MQ 663, p. 108.

FREEDOM & REASON: A free man is a man who lives according to the commands of reason. - Feuchtersleben. (Ein freier Mensch ist ein Mensch, der nach der Vernunft lebt.)

FREEDOM & REASON: Causality of reason in the determination of the will. - Kant.

FREEDOM & REASON: Freedom is essentially the capacity to subordinate all arbitrary actions to the motives of reason. - Kant. (Die Freiheit ist eigentlich ein Vermoegen, all willkuerlichen Handlungen den Bewegungsgruenden der Vernunft unterzuordnen.)

FREEDOM & REASON: Freedom is the character of reason. - Hegel. (Die Freiheit ist der Charakter der Vernuenftigkeit.)

FREEDOM & REASON: If freedom is not an illusion then it means the right not to have to obey anyone - except reason. - Heinrch Mann. (Wenn "Freiheit" kein Blendwerk ist, dann bedeutet sie den innigen Anspruch, niemanden zu gehorchen als nur der Vernunft.)

FREEDOM & REASON: The classical definition of freedom as reason …. - Irving L. Horowitz, The Anarchists, p. 594.

FREEDOM & REFUGEES, ESCAPING, EMIGRATION & IMMIGRATION, DEPORTATION: The last freedom - freedom to flee. - BERLINER ILLUSTRIERTE. - It is insufficient without a right to asylum, a right to immigrate and to settle - and to be exterritorially autonomous - in other countries. - J.Z., 8.8.86 & 17.4.00.

FREEDOM & REGULATIONS: There is still time to get off the regulatory turnpike - but let's not delay. It gets more expensive every mile we travel, and if we're not careful, we could miss that last exist to freedom! - Robert C. Moore, THE FREEMAN, 9/75, 556.

FREEDOM & RELIGION: As if freedom were not as good a religion as any other! … freedom is a new religion, the religion of our age. - Heinrich Heine, The Liberation. ( Die Freiheit ist eine neue Religion, die Religion unserer Zeit. Heine, Engl. Fragmente, XIII: Die Befreiung.)

FREEDOM & RESPONSIBILITY: Freedom compels a man to become responsible. People are opposed to this compulsion. This is their urge to be free. - Ulrich von Beckerath. (Freiheit zwingt zur Verantwortung. Gegen diesen Zwang sind die Leute. Das ist ihr Freiheitsbestreben.) - Freedom includes the right not to be free, to choose a condition of voluntary servitude, to follow any kind of leader to whatever extent one desires. It includes the right to shoulder individual responsibilities on others. The only condition is that this does not become permanent but that people remain free to withdraw from this servitude as soon as they wake up to their sleeping potential. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & RESPONSIBILITY: Freedom rests, and always will, on individual responsibility, individual integrity, individual effort, individual courage, and individual religious faith. It does not rest in Washington. It rests with you and me. - Ed. Lipscomb, quoted in THE FREEMAN, 7/72.

FREEDOM & RESPONSIBILITY: That freedom is best conceived not as a negative rejection of external restrictions but as a positive self-regulating form of responsible activity. - View ascribed to Sir Herbert Read, in Krimerman & Perry, Patterns of anarchy, p. 406.

FREEDOM & RESPONSIBILITY: The first requisite of freedom is to accept responsibility for the lack of it. - E.C. Riegel.

FREEDOM & RESPONSIBILITY: Those who are demanding freedom from responsibility have yet to discover there is only freedom for the responsible. - Paul L. Fisher, THE FREEMAN, March 69.

FREEDOM & RESPONSIBILITY: You can have as much freedom as you can be responsible for. - S.S.T. (Calender proverb.) Unfortunately, constitutions, laws, regulations, politicians, bureaucrats and policemen do not accept that principle as the final one. - J.Z., 10.4.00.

FREEDOM & RESTRAINT, EVIL: All restraint, qua restraint, is an evil. - John Stuart Mill, quoted in: Benjamin R. Barber, Superman & Common Man, 85.

FREEDOM & RESTRAINT: Freedom, to George Boardman, was the "absence of restraint from others", with universal application, and himself becoming "one of the others", in turn. - GAZETTE TELEGRAPH, 22.4.69.

FREEDOM & RESTRAINTS BY MEN: That would be my ideal of freedom: No man-concocted restraints against the release of creative human energy. - Leonard E. Read, THE FREEMAN, 3/74. - Liberty - despotism's opposite - can be defined as no man-concocted restraints against the release of creative human energy. - Leonard E. Read, NOTES FROM FEE, 9/72.

FREEDOM & RESTRAINTS: From a wise and respected friend I accept the only definition of freedom I have found which says to me what I mean by the term: "Freedom is the absence of restraint by others." - To insure precision of meaning, I insist that 'absence' be total, that it and 'restraint' be judged by me, and that 'others' includes any one or more o