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 of all living humans for all situations concerning my freedom; and I make exactly the same meanings applicable concerning the freedom of each one of those others, in which cases I am included in 'others' to him. - W.F. Gavin, The Trouble with Freedom, Rampart Journal, Spring 1967. - I would still try to restrain some people from thoughtless suicide attempts, assuming that they are temporarily out of their minds and that I would thus represent their rational nature against their temporarily present and predominant irrational nature. Afterwards, I would expect their rational nature to thank me. Naturally, there are sometimes rational motives for suicides. Should I, unintentionally, prevent a suicide in such a case, then I and the "victim" can always console themselves that there will be other opportunities. - J.Z. 3.4.00.

FREEDOM & RESTRAINTS: Full freedom is the absence of restraints, other than natural ones, on the actions of all individuals. - Free after Paul Lepanto, Return to Reason, 101.

FREEDOM & RESTRAINTS: Perfect freedom is here defined as an absence of man-concocted restraints against the release of creative energy. - Leonard E. Read, in announcing his work: Let Freedom Reign. - Perfect freedom is only required for those who desire it for themselves. And they achieve it most easily if they leave all other people free, in their own panarchies, to restrict their own lives as much as they want to. This is the basic condition for a lasting peace between freedom lovers and statists. It also promotes enlightenment on both sides and lets each individual advance at his own pace, without interfering or having to interfere with the lives of others. - PIOT, J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & RESTRICTIONISM: Instead of aspiring towards freedom & emancipation, we make a virtue of assuming unnecessary restrictions. - Leslie Charteris, The Saint Plays with Fire, p. 148. - Ulrich von Beckerath pointed out that most people believe that full freedom is right for themselves - but that most others cannot be trusted with it. - So each gives one vote for freedom for himself & 6,000 million votes for restrictions for others. Thus freedom for each is vastly outvoted. Beckerath brings as an analogy a vote among ancient Greek generals a) on who would be the best general among them & b) on who would be the second-best one. As a result all but Themistocles got only one vote, namely his own & everybody voted for Themistocles as the supposedly second-best general. - J.Z., 2.4.00.

FREEDOM & RESTRICTIONS: It should be obvious that anyone could voluntarily restrict only his OWN freedom to the advantage of one or several others, but not the freedom of OTHERS, for then he would appoint himself their guardian and ruler and claim for himself more freedom of action at their expense as well as against their will. - Kurt Zube, Letter to Rudolf Augstein.

FREEDOM & REVENGE: Your yelling "Viva!" and "Down!" is not going to get you one step closer to your goal, Little Man. You have been believing that your freedom is secured when you "put people against the wall."- Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!, 60.

FREEDOM & RIGHT: Freedom is right. - J.Z., 3/73.

FREEDOM & RIGHT: There is only one innate right, the birthright of freedom. - Leigh H. Irvine, What Is Americanism? 15.

FREEDOM & RIGHTS, COMFORTS & AMUSEMENTS: He was dismayed that most Americans had no conception of, or even desire for, freedom, but wanted only comfort, profit, and elementary amusement: "Our present population demands but little, and in consideration of that little will cheerfully barter off its major rights."- - Michael Wreszin, The Superfluous Anarchist Albert Jay Nock, Brown U.P., Providence, 1972, 81.

FREEDOM & RIGHTS: A free human being knows, appreciates and utilizes all his individual rights, i.e., all so far discovered. - J.Z., 5.5.93.

FREEDOM & RIGHTS: A person's rights in society, according to one view, should make him secure in a life of liberty & enjoyment of the fruits thereof, so long as he observes the same rights of others. But if ever he violates those rights, he makes, in effect, a public pronouncement that he rejects this rule. In rejecting it, he opens the door for others to treat him in like manner. His own conduct grants to other persons a hunting licence against himself & his properties. This is to say, 'Do unto others what you expect others to do unto you.'- Dr. F. A. Harper, in Why the Hanging? A Pine Tree Feature. (FREE STAR, No. 37, August 1969.)

FREEDOM & RIGHTS: Freedom based upon individual rights not only matters, it matters most. Without it we are not fully alive and grown up. - J.Z., 10.6.98.

FREEDOM & RIGHTS: Freedom is a condition in which each being can exercise all its rights unhindered. It must not be mixed up with arbitrariness. Arbitrary actions even of a single man lead almost always to the infringement of the freedom of others. Arbitrariness has therefore nothing in common with a general condition of freedom. Right and freedom are closely related. The "law of equal freedom" is just another name for right. - From the introduction to the human rights draft in PEACE PLANS No. 4.

FREEDOM & RIGHTS: Freedom is the possibility to do under all circumstances that which is right. One should add that one does not act wrongly if one restricts or does not utilize all one's rights. There is also the right to make mistakes - at one's own expense and risk. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & RIGHTS: Freedoms or liberties are those spheres of action of other people that you ought to leave alone - unless you ant your nose punched in. - J.Z., 11.4.84.

FREEDOM & RIGHTS: Right gives freedom. - H.G. Pearce, I notes to Borsodi's 17 problem of living. - One might as well say that "freedom gives rights" or that genuine freedoms or liberties and genuine rights are identical. - J.Z., 16.4.00.
 

FREEDOM & RIGHTS: What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right! - Goethe, Egmont, 1788, tr. Michael Hamburger.

FREEDOM & RULE OR DOMINATION: Freedom does not rule. - Kalenda 1993. (Freiheit herrscht nicht. - Freedom will have to try to dominate those who persist in attacking it. It should also become the rule for the relationships between people who love liberty. And they should leave the communities of those alone, who do not love it and thus do their things to themselves, and only themselves. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM & SECURITY OF RIGHTS: For Montesquieu freedom consisted in the security of rights which could only be realized by a class of individual judges. - Sergius Hessen, Die Menschenrechte im Liberalismus, Sozialismus und Kommunismus, Um die Erklaerung der Menschenrechte, p. 141. - It would be nice if one had reasons to believe that most governmental judges had sufficient knowledge of and appreciation for individual rights. Like most lawyers they are rather inclined to deny them. - J.Z., 4.4.00.

FREEDOM & SECURITY: Political liberty consists in security, or at all events, in the opinion that we enjoy security. - Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws, book 12, ch. ii. - In reality, territorial politics leads to wars, civil wars, revolutions and terrorism - and also to poverty. - J.Z., 9.4.00.

FREEDOM & SELF CONTROL: Freedom is self control. No more, no less. - From leaflet of Progress Party, Qld., 1979/80. - "Freedom is … self-control. No more, No less."- From COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE TELEGRAPH, a freedom newspaper - masthead text. n.d.

FREEDOM & SELF-CONTROL: Man is free when he controls himself. Self-control is never an imposition. - Robert LeFevre, THE REGISTER.

FREEDOM & SELF-CONTROL: No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus or Pythagoras.

FREEDOM & SELF-CONTROL: Only when man is free to control himself and all he produces, can he develop to his utmost capabilities. - From the Masthead of the Colorado Springs GAZETTE TELEGRAPH - Your Freedom Newspaper.

FREEDOM & SELF-CONTROL: Your liberty goes as far as your self-control. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. - What if you are a very self-controlled slave, serf, political prisoner, inmate of an extermination camp or confronted by "ethnic cleansing" hordes or IBMs targeted upon you? - Isn't it deplorable how otherwise intelligent people are often blind to very large segments of freedom? - J.Z., 7.4.00.

FREEDOM & SELF-DETERMINATION: Freedom means our capacity for self-determination as a people, the capacity to determine our own future as a nation. - Santamaria, The price of Freedom, chapter XVI, p. 233. - One of the worst books on liberty that I have found. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & SELFDETERMINATION: Each man must be left free to determine his own destiny, to seek his own goals, to live his own life as he sees fit. - Ridgway K. Foley Jr., THE FREEMAN, 4/74.

FREEDOM & SELFDEVELOPMENT: "… we have a reason to live - to learn, to discover, to be free!"- Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, p. 35.

FREEDOM & SELF-GOVERNMENT, SELF-LEGISLATION: "… we must be able to understand the meaning of 'freedom' ('self-legislation') without having to appeal to any moral notions. This, unfortunately, is just what Kant's doctrine of freedom will not let us do. For freedom is for him a morally loaded notion, …" - Jeffrie G. Murphy, Kant, The Philosophy of Right, 81. - For me, too. Why should "self-legislation" be separated from all morality, especially, when as reasonable people, we must concede the right to self-legislation to all others, too? - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & SELF-GOVERNMENT: Self-government is better than good government. - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.

FREEDOM & SELFL-LIBERATION: Free yourself first. - quoted by Robert Baker in LAISSEZ FAIRE REVIEW, May/June 1974.

FREEDOM & SELF-OWNERSHIP, LIFE: Only when every man owns his life, can every man be free. - Mark Tier, 12.10.74.

FREEDOM & SELF-OWNERSHIP: Only when you own your life can you be free. … If they own even a part of your life, how can you be free? - Mark Tier, THE AUSTRALIAN, 12.10.74. - Should no one be free to sell hours of his knowledge and skills to others? Does this contractual freedom restrict liberty, too? - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM & SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, SELF-GOVERNMENT FOR INDIVIDUALS: Freedom of self- and utter personal responsibility for self. - Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, 359.

FREEDOM & SELF-RESPONSIBILITY: And according to this proper and generally received meaning of the word, a "freeman is he that in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to do." - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Part w, Of Commonwealth. - Seldes. - Unless the necessity of the same freedom for others or the fact that others, too, have the right to be free men, is expressed, a criminal with victims might make the same statement. The actions ought to be confined to productive & creative or self-concerned ones. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & SELF-RESPONSIBILITY: Freedom and self-responsibility are interchangeable terms. Self-responsibility is impossible unless one be free and one cannot be free if not self-responsible. - Leonard E. Read, Meditations on Freedom, 12.

FREEDOM & SELF-RULE: We can change the world, rearrange the world, if you believe in justice, if you believe in freedom, let a man live his own life, rules and regulations, who needs them, throw them out the door. - Graham Nash, If They Come in the Morning, on black power.

FREEDOM & SELF-THINKING: Freedom cannot be preserved unless we become our own head scratchers, ceasing the herd-like acceptance of the conclusions given by other people. We should spend fewer hours with the local newspaper or nightly TV news and concentrate more on studying the basics. - Charles Heath, The Golden Egg.

FREEDOM & SERVITUDE: "… the free and independent individual, who can't be compelled to serve anyone."- James P. Hogan, Mirror Maze, 143. - But one can leave him in circumstances which compel him to serve himself, supporting himself self-responsibly. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & SIN: Much of what is called sin is irrelevant, misnamed and no public issue. What is really sinful, however, is the suppression of freedom… - Dagobert D. Runes, Handbook of Reason, 138/39.

FREEDOM & SKINNER'S BEHAVIORISM: If Skinner wanted to demonstrate that SOME people are incapable of knowing and appreciating freedom and dignity - then he did succeed by his own example. - J.Z., n.d.

FREEDOM & SLAVERY, ABSOLUTE FREEDOM: Either be wholly slave or wholly free. - John Dryden, The Hind & the Panther. - Or enjoy or suffer under any in-between mixture that you have freely chosen for yourself and as long as you want to. - J.Z., 2.11.82, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & SLAVERY, IMAGINED FREEDOM: No one is more enslaved than the one who imagines himself free without being free. - Goethe, Wahlverwandtschaften, 2, 5, Aus Ottiliens Tagebuch. (Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich frei hält, ohne es zu sein.)

FREEDOM & SLAVERY: I feel that it does not behoove slaves to reason about freedom. - Noam Chomsky, For Reasons of State, 172. - They ought to reason about it more than any other people! - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM & SLAVERY: I have this archaic prejudice for freedom over even the nicest slavery. - Poul Anderson, A Circle of Hells, 147.

FREEDOM & SLAVERY: If there is a slave anywhere in the star-flung worlds, no man is free… While there is a free man anywhere, no man is completely a slave. - Jack Williamson & James E. Gunn, Star Bridge, 149. - For the time being I would be satisfied with full freedom on Earth - for all those who want it and deserve it. - J.Z., 6.4.00.

FREEDOM & SLAVERY: Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. - Emerson, Miscellanies: Women.

FREEDOM & SOCIALISM: Socialism without freedom is a pigsty. - Bakunin.

FREEDOM & SOCIETY: "… my fervent belief that individual freedom is the prime objective of social arrangements - …" - Milton Friedman, An Economist Protests, X.

FREEDOM & SOCIETY: Freedom is for society that what health is for the individual. Without freedom there can be no happiness for society. - Bolingbroke. - Retranslated from a German translation. - Freedom is a condition for concrete individuals, not for abstracts like "society". The freedom of a "society" is merely the sum of the freedoms of its members. - J.Z. 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & SOLIDARITY: Freedom and solidarity are identical concepts. Since the freedom of each finds in the freedom of others not a barrier, as says the Declaration of the Rights of Men and Citizens of 1793, but a support, the freest man is the one who has the most relations to his fellow men, note, all volunteers. … Mackay says in his "Abrechnung" (Final Account): "You need the others. See to it that they need you, too. Otherwise you are finished." - Solneman in: John Henry Mackay, the Unique.

FREEDOM & SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL: Freedom is the sovereignty of the individual. - Warren.

FREEDOM & SPONTANEITY: … the absolute spontaneity. - Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Vorlaender, p. 730.

FREEDOM & STATE SOCIALISM: "… socialism is force, applied in restraint of faculties. For good or for evil, it is the attempt to place all men and all human affairs under a compulsory system; and to allow no free system to exist by the side of its own system, which would be necessarily endangered by such rivalry. It differs from every free system in this essential particular: that under liberty, you may give away your own liberty, if you think good, and be socialist, or anything else you like; under socialism, you must be socialist, and may not make a place for yourself in any free system. - Compare: "Capitalism for consenting adults." - Mack, Auberon Herbert, Essay Six, p. 230. - There are hundreds of different kinds of socialism. Some are anarchistic or libertarian. A few might even be panarchistic, for e.g. Max Nettlau and Gustav Landauer viewed panarchism favourably. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM & STATE: Hegel is supposed to have said that freedom is "submission to the State". - This is probably just another mix-up between the "State", seen as an ideal, and the ideal of a free society. If one would thus rather say: Freedom is the submission to the conditions required for the existence of a free society, i.e., one which bring about the maximum of freedom for each of its participants, then such a remark would make some sense. - The own arbitrary actions towards others have to be submitted to their liberties. Liberty isn't license. - J.Z. 4.4.00.

FREEDOM & STATE: Freedom was always a much to serious matter to leave it in the hands of the followers of the State. - LERNZIEL ANARCHIE, No. 3.

FREEDOM & STATISM: Don't love your chains and kiss your manacles! - J.Z., 12/72, free after Eric Frank Russell, The Great Explosion, 140.

FREEDOM & STATISM: What good is freedom to an ox, an ape or a sheep? For these animals it is an obstacle. Why should it be forced upon them? After a short time they will anyhow relapse into their beloved dependence. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & STATISM: You want liberty? To a large extent it is still yours for the asking. But did you ever seriously ask for it? - J.Z., 1965. - Only in the 80's did it occur to me that I have never seen e.g. a demonstration or a march demanding the abolition of "legal tender" and of the "central bank" or the introduction of "individual secessionism" and of "full monetary freedom". - Most people are simply bored by such topics or greatly misunderstand them still. Few stand up for unilateral free trade and migration, few bother to work out libertarian revolution and defence programs. Even the compilation of libertarian directories, bibliographies, abstracts, ideas, definitions, refutations, encyclopedias, seems too much work to them. They think they have better things to do - and engage in trivia, or confine themselves to a few authors and texts on liberty. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM & SUBMISSION: Is there anything more exasperating than the smug asseveration that service to God, or service tot he State, is the "real freedom"? Submission may or may not be better than freedom (Note by J.Z.: At least for volunteers, who wanted it and as long as they can stand it!), and one kind of freedom may or may not be consonant with another; but to say that submission is freedom is a mockery of language. - R.C. W. Ettinger, Man into Superman, 146.

FREEDOM & SUBORDINATION: What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior? - Walt Whitman.

FREEDOM & SUCCESS: No, the freedom battle is not yet won. It is not a numbers game primarily. Not every part-victory will be rewarded and least likely will be financial returns, for a considerable time to come. Moreover, the most important battles will have to be fought within our own minds. - J.Z., 24.9.84, 10.4.00.

FREEDOM & SUPPRESSION: I taught you to see the manner in which freedom is suppressed, every minute of the day, and how lack of freedom is nurtured. - Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man, 66.

FREEDOM & SURVIVAL: Were the practice of freedom totally abandoned, all would perish. Freedom is still practised to a marked extent despite all the barriers, but must wane and disappear eventually without a belief and faith to sustain it. - Leonard E. Read, NOTES FROM FEE, 5/73.

FREEDOM & SURVIVAL: You will either be free or you won't be. The modern mass extermination devices will assure that. - J.Z., 20.5.76.

FREEDOM & SURVIVAL: Your survival chances increase with liberty. - J.Z., 26.4.96. - See my ABC Against Nuclear War, Peace, Rights, Tolerance, Defence, War Aims, Human Rights.

FREEDOM & SYSTEMS: Freedom means to refuse absorption by "systems". - Peter L. Berger, Movement & Revolution, Doubleday, 1970, quoted in a review in THE UNIVERSITY BOOKMAN, Spring 71, p. 69.

FREEDOM & TAXES OR TRIBUTES: What good does it do you to assert that you are a free man? Don’t you have to pay taxes punctually, although you are opposed to them? - Busch. (Was hilft es dir, damit zu prahlen, dass du ein freies Menschenkind? Musst du nicht puenktlich Steuern zahlen, obwohl sie dir zuwider sind?)

FREEDOM & TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS OF IT: Those who advocate the "temporary loss" of our freedom in order to preserve it permanently are advocating only one thing: the abolition of liberty. - Dean Russell, on conscription and foreign wars, May 1955. In: THE FREEMAN ?

FREEDOM & TERRITORIALISM: Freedom under territorial governments isn't freedom. - J.Z., 21.12.93.

FREEDOM & THE ABILITY TO PAY: The history of society so far was at least to 50% proportional to the history of the individual's ability to pay. Wherever liquidity equals zero the individual becomes enslaved. - Ulrich von Beckerath, 18.1.54, note to Kurt Zube's "Manifest der Freiheit".

FREEDOM & THE COMMON PEOPLE, POOR PEOPLE: Personal freedom is of supreme importance for unimportant people. - Gaston Maxo (Haxo?) Good Government, 8/9/69. - All people are important enough to deserve liberty - if they want it and are no threats to the liberties of others. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM & THE FREEDOM FIGHT OR FREEDOM STRUGGLE, INVESTMENTS, WEALTH, PROPERTY: But how will you survive the dictatorship that will come after? The freedom fight is the only issue worth investing anytime money or effort in today. If we lose it, we lose everything. Period. - René Baxter, in the introduction to his 1^st issue of THE FREEDOM FIGHTER. - The very notion that wealth will have to be invested in the freedom struggle prevents many people from exploring their self-publishing options in very affordable alternative media like microfiche, floppy disks and text-only CD-ROMs. Some pro-freedom foundations may have an annual budget that is larger than would be required to finance a complete freedom library, one that could sell cheap duplicates of most of its texts, using the alternative media. Instead, they largely waste their resources on an ancient medium that has never as yet fulfilled its promises, hopes and expectations. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM & THE INDIVIDUAL'S POTENTIAL: Whatever one's race colour or creed, one must admit the necessity of 'freedom' as the environment within which the ultimate social atom, the individual, develops to the fullest extent his or her potentialities. - Graham Hutton, Agenda for a Free Society, the Individual and Society.

FREEDOM & THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION : The slender Frenchman spent his life fighting to give all Frenchmen the freedom which alone could make the specialized world of the Industrial Revolution function properly. - G.C. Roche III, Bastiat, 14. - The Industrial Revolution multiplied the output of goods and of jobs but not of exchange media to pay for them, since it clung to an exclusive exchange medium, largely tied to scarce metals and did not fully introduce the clearing options, which were then even less understood than they are now. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & THE INITIATION OF FORCE: Freedom is the ability to choose among the possibilities available in one's environment without being the instigator or recipient of initiatory force. - Jarret B. Wollstein.

FREEDOM & THE LIVES OF OTHERS, DECISION-MAKING: The lives of others are not yours to dispose of. - Ayn Rand.

FREEDOM & THE MASSES: Instead of glibly castigating the masses, Nock said, Mencken might better have devoted his talent and energy to discovering what men were capable of when free to pursue their genuine interests. Perhaps Mencken was so blind as not to recognize that most men were not free to develop their potential. - - Michael Wreszin, The Superfluous Anarchist Albert Jay Nock, Brown U.P., Providence, 1972, 62/63. - Nock had not gone far in this direction, either and later considered it a futile attempt. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & THE QUALITY OF LIFE: Whosoever destroys freedom destroys the quality of life in its core. - Erhard Eppler, Aufgaben der Zukungt - Qualitaeten des Lebens, Band 1.

FREEDOM & THE RIGHT TO THE PROCEEDS FROM ONE'S OWN LABOURS, AT FREE MARKET OR FREE CONTRACT EVALUATIONS. TAXATION, INFLATION & MONOPOLIES, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, LAISSEZ FAIRE, LABOUR & ITS PRODUCT: Man has little to gain from liberty unless that liberty includes the liberty to control what he produces. - Benjamin R. Tucker, in a short set of quotations from him compiled by Joe Labadie.

FREEDOM & THE RULING CLIQUES: "Freedom is lost for all but the ruling clique." - Perry E. Gresham, THE FREEMAN, 6/73. - He applied it to Russia and China only - but it has a wider application. - J.Z., 11/73. - The vast sphere for arbitrary or artificially legalize actions by ruling people should not be equated with freedom, which is always a social condition, extended to all rational and peaceful people. Rulers that must be guarded night and day, even the mayor of Detroit, I was told, has dozens of guards, are at least to that extent not free. They are threatened not only by revolutions but by putsches and, generally, any leash has two ends. - Tyrants of any kind are not free. - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM & THE SOCIAL FRAMEWORK: Only within the frame of a social system can meaning be attached to the term freedom. As a praxeological term, freedom refers to the sphere within which an acting individual is in a position to choose between alternative modes of action. A man is free insofar as he is permitted to choose ends & the means to be used for the attainment of those ends. A man's freedom is most rigidly restricted by the laws of nature as well as by the laws of praxeology. He cannot attain ends which are incompatible with one another. If he chooses to indulge in gratifications that produce definite effects upon the functioning of his body or his mind, he must put up with these consequences. It would be inexpedient to say that man is not free because he cannot enjoy the pleasures or indulgence in certain drugs without being affected by their inevitable results, commonly considered as highly undesirable. While this is admitted by & large by all reasonable people, there is no such unanimity with regard to the appreciation of the laws of praxeology… - Mises, Human Action, 281. - & there may never be such unanimity! - J.Z.

FREEDOM & THE STATE: In opposing the "cult of the State" with the "cult of freedom", collectivist anarchism sharpened the differences between Behemoth and Anarch - but it contributed little to maximize the are of human options and social reorganization. - Irving Horowitz, The Anarchists, p. 40.

FREEDOM & THE STATE: It is nonsense to make any pretence of reconciling the State and liberty. - Lenin, quoted in: Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Harper, 1943, 211. - True for his State and for any other territorial State. - J.Z., 6.5.00.

FREEDOM & THE STATE: Freedom, in a political context… does not mean freedom from the landlord or freedom from the employer, or freedom from the laws of nature … It means freedom from the coercive power of the State - and nothing else. - O'Neill, Ayn Rand, 46.

FREEDOM & THE TAX REVOLT: The importance of the tax revolt movement is ideological, it's convincing millions that freedom didn't fail, it was undermined and sabotaged for the benefit of the few, at the expense of all. - Rene Baxter, FREEDOM TODAY, 9/75.

FREEDOM & THOUGHT: The English shall be as free as their thoughts. - Alfred the Great, quoted in Meyer's Konversations Lexikon, retranslated into English.

FREEDOM & TIME, THE OWN TIME: "My own time" - is one of my most precious possessions & an indication of the degree of my personal liberty. - J.Z., 6.4.00.

FREEDOM & TOLERANCE: The content and purpose of freedom to my mind, is to let men accept what appeals to them, and live their lives as they want to, so long as they do not encroach injuriously upon the lives of others. - Max Eastman, quoted in REASON, 8/79.

FREEDOM & TOLERANCE: We want freedom. - YAF conference slogan. - Add: You can have your restrictions! - J.Z., 16.3.75.

FREEDOM & UNCONSCIOUSNESS: Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. - D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature, 1923. - If that were true then they would be very free now. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM & UNITY: Freedom instead of unity. But also freedom to realize unity exterritorially or panarchistically, under personal laws that may restrict many liberties. - J.Z., 10.4.96, 6.4.00.

FREEDOM & UTILITARIANISM: Bentham makes liberty to consist in the freedom to follow 14 specific sources of pleasures which he names. (Principles of Morals, vol. I, chap. v.

FREEDOM & VALUE: For Herbert Read freedom is "the value of all values". - Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible, ch. 3: Freedom and Equality, on the first page.

FREEDOM & VALUE: Freedom is the soil required for the full growth of other values. - C. Bay, The Structure of Freedom, Stanford, Cal., Stanford U.P., 1958, p. 19.

FREEDOM & VALUE: Liberty is not a value, but the ground of value. - W.H. Auden in his introduction to Henry James: The American Scene, N.Y., 1946, p. XVIII.

FREEDOM & VALUES: Freedom is the value upon which all other values depend. - Ron Manner's bookshop notes.

FREEDOM & VALUES: The reason freedom is so important is that it is a pre-requisite to any other value: Without freedom, no other values are possible. - Uncle Ron's Bookshop - papers. - Values are also subjective, as the subjective value theorists has taught. Thus, for many people there are other values, even though these values would restrict their own liberties and rights, and if they forcefully applied them to others, then also the liberties and rights of others. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM & VARIETY: Freedom permits variety; while the tyrant makes an outlaw of all who think differently. - Leigh H. Irvine, What Is Americanism? 16. - Rather, who express themselves and act differently. Even tyrants, so far, do not readily know the thoughts of others. - J.Z., 6.4.00.

FREEDOM & VICES: Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. - Wilhelm von Humboldt, Die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates, 1851.

FREEDOM & VISION: With an incomplete or only fractional vision of freedom only limited objectives can be achieved and even these only with great difficulties. - The full vision of all freedom options, made easily accessible to all interested, could release almost undreamed of energies for their realization. Just compare how the misleading dreams of State socialism have mislead masses of people for many decades. Then try to mobilize all rightful and sensible dreams for liberty. - So far we have not even put together a libertarian encyclopaedia, complete libertarian library, bibliography, index, abstracts & review compilation, directory, projects list, resource survey, far less an Ideas Archive for libertarians, organized complete, permanent and cheap libertarian publishing, using affordable and efficient alternative media, and a libertarian militia for the defence of individual rights. - We have not self-mobilized all our strengths and largely wasted our energies on limited and costly projects and objectives and haven't even properly evaluated these, like politicians do their campaign efforts, especially when they have been defeated. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & VOLUNTARISM: Freedom means voluntarism in every sphere. Especially regarding State & community memberships, exchange media and value standards, the defence of individual rights. And many still quite legal opportunities for voluntary actions have been left unused or underutilized, like e.g. the use of microfiche, floppy disks and CD-ROMs for ALL pro-freedom writings. - J.Z. , 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & VOLUNTARY INTEGRATION: Voluntary integration is the basis and essence of freedom - in the state as well as for spirit and soul. - From Rudolf G. Bindings diary: Ad se ipsum. - The voluntary segregation aspect of liberty, the withdraw option, the minding one's own business, the doing-one's own thing aspect of liberty should not be ignored, either! - J.Z., 4.4.00. - Especially not since it could give anarchists and libertarians as well their chance to do their ideal things for themselves, under full exterritorial autonomy for their communities, after their members had individually or in groups seceded from the present territorial States, together with all other dissenters, intent on doing their own things to and for themselves. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & VOTING: Let's "vote for freedom". - Edward Y Breeze, THE FREEMAN, 9/73. - that is probably the least one can do for liberty - and it means using a wrongful means towards a rightful end. Voting can only be rightful within volunteer communities, so voluntary that dissenters are permitted to secede from them. - J.Z., 16.4.00. - That right alone would already turn the tax or subscription system of such a community into a voluntary taxation system, even if nominally it would not be one. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & WANTS: I always prefer to do the things I want to do. - J.Z. 27.11.75. - There are numerous things that I want to do and have not as yet done - although for many of these, I had the freedom to do so. - J.Z., 10.4.00. - Many of the projects that I like are of a kind that it is unlikely that they could be completed by an individual. An individual could not, on his own, build a large steam ship or jet aeroplane, or, not even, as Leonard E. Read pointed out, produce a can of beans or a pencil. Market-like and business-like national and international cooperation among libertarians is still sorely missing, with each involved only at the level of his primary interests. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & WAR: In times of war or insurrection the freedom of the individual becomes, with good reason, subordinated to the safety of society as a whole. - Popular opinion. - Precisely during wars the upholding of certain liberties become more important than ever. Nor should one assume that wars are conducted as a rule for the safety of society as a whole. On the contrary, they are among the greatest dangers to all societies, especially since the invention of mass extermination devices or anti-people "weapons". A whole book or xyz volumes could and should be filled with popular wrong notions on liberty. To end wars, as Thomas Morus suggested, tyrannicide might have to be re-introduced, military insurrections against despots should be encouraged. The monopoly of governments to make treaties and alliances and to decide upon war, peace and disarmament ought to be discontinued. The people should be armed against their governments, rather than the governments against the people. Free people, their communities or their military organizations: citizen soldiers, should decide about war and peace and the destruction of anti-people "weapons". Economic liberties, e.g. free trade and free migration, could prevent many wars, like e.g. the clash between Japan and the U.S.A. during WW II. So could individual secessionism and exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities and rightful practices of direct democracy - that would not dominate dissenting minorities but left them free to do their own things to and for themselves. Rights of soldiers could turn militaristic and aggressive and oppressive armed forces into rightful forces for the preservation or restoration of peace and liberty. Governments messed up defence, security and protection as they messed up the economy and communities. - J.Z., 4.4.00.

FREEDOM & WILL: The free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word since freedom is real only as will, as subject. - Hegel. - (Das Freie ist der Wille. Wille ohne Freiheit ist ein leeres Wort, so wie die Freiheit nur als Wille, als Subject wirklich ist.) - As usual, clear as mud! Try to derive e.g. the details of monetary freedom from that! - J.Z., 9.4.00. - It might be as difficult as to derive these details from the general recommendation: Love your neighbor as yourself. - The latter also overlook that many people do not really appreciate and respect themselves - and thus have no respect for the rights of their neighbors, either. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM & WILLFULNESS: The idea that liberty means not merely that men are to be free to do what they will, but also that they are right to do so, is a naïve misconception. If it were followed through, it would produce an unfree society. As Burke said, "Their passions forge their fetters." - Arthur Shenfield, REASON, 8/76. - That is also a naïve misconception. If ALL men are to be free in that sense then this obviously means that NO one is at liberty to act AGAINST the free will of OTHERS, so that all have to come to an expressed or implied agreement on equal liberty for all of them. Freedom does not mean license, whim or arbitrariness as far as the affairs, rights, liberties and contracts of others are concerned. One is free to act arbitrarily only within one's own sphere of rights and liberties. - In our miseducation system ethics, morality, right and wrong, human rights, individual liberties, are so little or superficially dealt with that one can compare it perhaps only to merely teaching the ABC and numbers in primary schools. In this respect the ancient Persian education system was much better. It consisted mainly in training in arms and in discussing moral questions. - J.Z., 10.4.00.

FREEDOM & WISHES: Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. - Epictetus, Discourses, Bk. 2. - Seldes. - Not at the expense of others. - J.Z.

FREEDOM & WISHES: To want to be free is to be free. - Ludwig Boerne. - At most it is the first step towards freedom. - J.Z., 15.4.00.

FREEDOM & WORDS: We should muster and mobilize all words for liberty. They are our most important weapons, allies, auxiliaries and resources in the struggle for liberty. With all of them readily on our side perhaps not much physical fighting needs to be done. - J.Z., 4.4.00.

FREEDOM A BOURGEOIS NOTION? Freedom is nothing but an invention of the bourgeois. - A Marxist notion. If that were the case then thereby alone it would already be superior to the "proletarians" and all their socialistic and class conscious "philosophers". - J.Z., 7.4.00.

FREEDOM ACCORDING TO MARX: Freedom can only consist in socialized men rationally regulating their interchange with nature, bringing it under common control. - Karl Marx, quoted by T. Machan, Liberty & Culture, 85. - No wonder he understood so little of it - with THAT definition in mind. - J.Z., 15.1.93.

FREEDOM ADVOCATES TO BE SUPPORTED BY BUSINESSMEN? But the valiant minority of authentic fighters is struggling against overwhelming odds and growing, very slowly. The hardships, the injustices, and the persecutions suffered by these young advocates of reason and capitalism are too terrible a story to be told briefly. These are the young people whom businessmen should support. - Ayn Rand, THE SANCTION OF THE VICTIMS, 155. - If these freedom fighters used affordable alternative media, then they wouldn't need support from businessmen and, nevertheless, they could, between them, easily mobilize all of freedom's knowledge, all facts ideas and arguments, all their combined resources, for an effective freedom struggle. But they still cling either to paper tigers or put all their hopes upon the future effectiveness of online media only. - Between them they do possibly spend every year more on the medieval medium of print on paper, to put a few freedom texts temporarily in print, than would be required to put all freedom writings permanently and cheaply onto microfiche, floppy disks or CD-ROMs. - Without using all affordable and efficient alternative media for the freedom struggle, they shouldn't expect to win. These media do offer them the greatest freedom of expression and information opportunity that they ever had, and yet most of these traditionalist advocates continue to ignore them. None is a blind as he who will not see. - J.Z., 25.3.99. - The Internet has not yet sufficiently informed them in this freedom opportunity, either, but has rather, like print on paper and political voting, misled all too many of them. - How many complete freedom books are by now offered on the Internet? - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM AND CHRISTIANITY: Only at Christian morality and the common good does human freedom find its limits. - Popular notion. - As if freedom could not exist between those who are not Christians and those who are not religious at all. Freedom has not other limits than the equal freedom of others. - J.Z.

FREEDOM AND LAW: Laws written on paper can neither guaranty rights nor liberty. - Indeed, but well drafted codes of rights and liberties can make us much more conscious of these principles and their values. They would also include some rights that offer more than mere paper guaranties. - J.Z., 7.4.00.

FREEDOM AS A TOOL, WEAPON, STRENGTH, METHOD, MACHINERY, CAPITAL, SPECULATIVE OPPORTUNITY, CHANCE FOR FUTURE WEALTH AND PROFITS, RESOURCE & POWER: Freedom lovers, don't sit back resigned and apathetic. Remember, in the Kingdom of the Blind even the merely one-eyed man tends to become a king. He and we will be - unless we fail to make the effort required to utilize freedom as our most precious tool. - J.Z., 78.

FREEDOM AS A WEAPON, DEFENSE AND LIBERATION, REVOLUTIONARY WARFARE: Freedom is a gain for which to fight; that is understood. Freedom is also, or can be, a weapon with which to fight... - Tom Wintringham, quoted in: Peter Tatchell, DEMOCRATIC DEFENSE, 145.

FREEDOM AS A WEAPON, MEANS, MACHINERY, TOOL, POWER SOURCE: Freedom - the most powerful weapon - if it is properly understood and wielded. - J.Z., 1978.

FREEDOM AT ANY PRICE? Do we really always buy freedom at any price, whenever, wherever and by whomsoever and under what circumstances whatever it is offered to us or remains as a loophole? - Be honest about this, with yourself at least. - Do we even take up all significant freedom opportunities that are still quite legal and affordable? - J.Z., 12/72 & 11.4.00.

FREEDOM AVALANCHE: It is not enough to contribute just another fact, lecture, article, leaflet, pamphlet or book to the total freedom philosophy. It is necessary to make all of them, and more, available, cheaply and permanently, when, wherever and for whosoever - in an overwhelming avalanche of facts and arguments - and yet, a "tolerant" avalanche, one that would spare and welcome all dissenters who are only wanting to do their own things and are willing to let others do their own things to or for themselves. - J.Z., 19.6.80, 11.4.00.

FREEDOM FIGHT, WELFARE STATE, SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM: The fight we are waging now is not only to prevent further loss of our freedom but to restore it to its original dimensions. Our institutions - political, economic, educational, social, and religious, are largely in the hands of the enemy. I refer here not only to avowed socialists and communists. The bald fact is that the American people and their once free institutions have been engulfed by the Welfare State and its protagonists. - Admiral Ben Moreell, The Admiral's Log II, 42. - It is not true that Americans were ever and consciously as well as actively quite free. Don't they deserve more liberties than those which they had already achieved once before? - Restoration AND expansion! - J.Z. 15.4.00.

FREEDOM FIGHTERS: Of most fighters for freedom one can say that they are above all temptation, except that of seating themselves on the backs of those they have liberated. - Max Nomad, A Skeptic's Political Dictionary, 1953, 117.

FREEDOM FIRST: Freedom first. Peace, justice, progress, prosperity, even longevity and space settlements will follow, as fast as is possible. - J.Z., 11.7.91, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM FIRST: What is to be done first? Give him Freedom, of course. - Van Vogt, The Weapon Makers, 85.

FREEDOM FOR ALL OR ONLY FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO BE FREE? I believe all people ought to be free. - From film: Peace for a Gunfighter. - Freedom may be a moral duty for a rational man but it is not a duty that can be rightfully enforced. - J.Z., 14.4.00.

FREEDOM FOR ALL? No! Only for those who want it. Others hate it or fear it as capitalism or as a bourgeois prejudice or even as the producer of monopolies, war and poverty. Let them have their beloved restrictionism - at their own risk and expense. - J.Z., 10.4.94, 17.4.00.

FREEDOM FOR DISSENTERS: Freedom only for the supporters of the Government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively for the one who thinks differently. - Rosa Luxemburg. - Another version: "Freedom for supporters of the government only, for the members of one party only - no matter how big its membership may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently. - Rosa Luxemburg: Die Russische Revolution, quoted in Paul Froelich's biography of her, London, 1940, Seldes, The Great Quotations. - Rather, for the man who ACTS differently. - J.Z.

FREEDOM FOR OTHERS & FOR ONESELF: Freedom is what many people want for themselves and few want for others. - Thomas Szasz, UNTAMED TONGUE, A dissenting Dictionary, 272pp. LFB offered it for $ 15.95. - Alas, I have not yet acquired it. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM FOR SOME VS. FREEDOM FOR ALL: No man fights against freedom; at the most he fights against the freedom of others. Every kind of freedom has, therefore, always existed; sometimes as special privilege, at other times as general right. - The youthful Karl Marx, according to Rudolf Rocker, Nationalism and Culture, 242.

FREEDOM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE VS. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: There was always plenty to do that was legitimate and more interesting than anything likely to land us in trouble, so why get in trouble? This was all there was to it; this was the sum of our ethical imperative. - Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Harper, 1943, 69. - Juvenile deliquency drops off sharply for those who get out of compulsory schooling and into productive jobs. - It also helps if there are not 5 million police regulations, as in Germany, when I left it, in 1959. - J.Z., 5.5.00.

FREEDOM FROM & TO: "… important … that we need freedom from in order to be able to achieve freedom to. - G. Satory, Liberty & Law, 10.

FREEDOM FROM FREEDOM GROWS: "… a struggle for freedom can proceed only from freedom and not through enslavement. - John Anderson, Australian Journal of Psychology & Philosophy, 1943.

FREEDOM HAS THE ANSWERS: Freedom has all the answers. Just make them cheaply, easily and permanently accessible to all. - J.Z., 20.1.91.

FREEDOM IDEAS DO NOT AGE: Freedom ideas do not age - even while they are out of fashion. - J.Z., 22.10.94.

FREEDOM IDEAS: Freedom ideas are largely ignored or shunned, out of ignorance or popular prejudices. "Tain't what you don't know that hurts you; it's what you do know that ain't so."- Proverb, quoted by Theodor Sturgeon in: Case of the Dreamer, 97.

FREEDOM IN AN UNFREE WORLD? There is no such thing as "personal freedom" in an unfree world. There is no such thing as liberty or tyranny for an isolated individual. There is no such thing as "inner" or "spiritual" freedom. Liberty/tyranny is the property of a social system. - Pyrrho, TC94 of 30 March 81, page 6.

FREEDOM IN FORM & FREEDOM IN FACT, DEMOCRACY, VOTING, PARLIAMENTARISM, FORMALITIES: "Herbert Spencer … There is a summary of adequate scope for our purpose in the four essays which he collected and published under the title of The Man versus The State (1884). After nearly a generation had passed he re-examined in these essays a warning he had published in 1860 on Parliamentary Reform: the Dangers and the Safeguards, a subject which had interested him from his youth. The thesis of this essay was that, unless due precautions were taken, increase of freedom in form would be followed by decrease of freedom in fact. He found on review that nothing had occurred to alter the belief he had expressed; the drift of legislation since that time had been of the kind he anticipated; dictatorial measures, rapidly multiplied, had tended continually to narrow the liberty of individuals. Since he wrote there has been an acceleration of this movement with ever-increasing momentum. - S. Hutchinson Harris, The Doctrine of Personal Right, 124. - No institution, not even parliaments, courts, police forces &, least of all, governments, should be granted a monopoly for the preservation of freedom. - J.Z., 3.7.92.

FREEDOM IN ISOLATION? Freedom is not possible over a long period if it exists in only one part of the world. - Glen G. Cooper, Strategy of Contemporary Realism, Sep. 1976. - But that has always been the condition of all liberties that has so far ever existed anywhere. Nevertheless, many of them have persisted, if not here then there. Freedom, one might say, has its own life force - or, it is so inherently attractive, at least in its more obvious or classical forms, that it will be re-discovered again and again and its final victory is certain - once a certain degree of enlightenment is widely enough attained. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM IN SOCIETY, NO BARRIERS, NO CLASSES, NO FRONTIERS, PROGRESS SHARED: Progress Shared. The enlargement aspects of freedom are societal, shared. The benefit is expanded to the degree liberty is recognized and widespread. Freedom is extended by numbers. The more widespread, the greater the freedom and choice of every participant in exchange. That's why our borders should be free and open to all trade. Tariffs and duties are very real barriers barring us from efficient production on the basis that it was produced by "others". But there are no "others". Not, under freedom. That's why freedom is the only democratic system. Everyone has a stake in it. It eliminates classes. Its blessings reach everyone. - Joan Marie Leonard in THE FREEMAN, 3/77, 160/161.

FREEDOM IN SOCIETY: One person who is free in a society that is not free is not experiencing freedom. He has the same freedom as any prisoner: lack of exchange. A millionaire is limited by what he can buy in exchange for his dollars. A million dollars is no good in prison - nor in the prison of a regulated, artificial economy as was demonstrated in the 1920's when a million marks wouldn't buy a loaf of bread - and in France when the cancerous nature of inflation was exposed with the issue of thousands of millions of new francs in the period of a month. (See: Fiat Money Inflation in France by Andrew Dickson White.) - Joan Marie Leonard in THE FREEMAN, 3/77. (Was it thousands of millions of Franks in a month? In Germany & Hungary, in their greatest inflations, yes - but did the Inflation of Assignats go as far? - J.Z.)

FREEDOM IN THE WELFARE STATE: The practical foundations of personal liberty, apart from the inherited rights of freedom of thought, religion and expression, are cheap accommodation, fee-free schools, minimal prices for essential consumer goods, in order to assure a decent surplus for leisure, education, entertainment and development. - Tage Erlander, Swedish Prime Minister, ca. 1954.

FREEDOM IN WESTERN DEMOCRACIES: In the Western democracies freedom exists, likewise, only on paper. - Popular view among those with no real experience or knowledge of what totalitarianism means. Anarchists and libertarians would be the last to deny that all too many liberties are still lacking in democracies - but at least they can relatively freely agitate there without risking lives and limbs. Ultimately, all liberties must not only be sufficiently known and practised but also sufficiently defended. By victim disarmament and military and police monopolies do modern democracies prevent that. Moreover, public education in democracies and republics teaches most citizens almost nothing about most of their basic liberties and rights. Up to 30% of those who survived totalitarian regimes were indoctrinated by them to be still antagonists to liberties and rights. Our percentage of as ignorant people may not be any lower or not by much. - Furthermore, even on paper all liberties and rights declarations have not yet been assembled. Compare my anthology of about 100 PRIVATE human rights declarations in PEACE PLANS Nos. 589/590. - J.Z., 7.4.00, 8.5.00.

FREEDOM IS MUTUAL, EQUAL FREEDOM, FREEDOM FOR ALL PEACEFUL PEOPLE: And this freedom will be the freedom of all. It will loosen both master and slave from the chain. For, by a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us. There is no true liberty for the individual except as he finds it in the liberty of all. There is no true security for the individual except as he finds it in the security of all. - Edwin Markham. - While you enjoy your panarchic full liberty, leave others in possession of the degrees of liberty and dependence or equality or whatever they do enjoy. There is not rightful and good reason to go to war against other people - as long as they do leave you alone. Freedom must be welcomed. It cannot be forced upon anyone. - J.Z. 12.4.00.

FREEDOM IS RIGHT: … the philosophy of freedom - that is, the freeing of human energy and the human spirit - is practical because it is right, and for no other reason. - Leonard E. Read, Outlook for Freedom, 38. - "Free spirits" is a loaded term. Many a heavy drinker would welcome that proposal. Freedom for individual minds and their actions is another matter. Read always strove for the best words for liberty - but even he did not always succeed. - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM LIGHT & THE SUN: Freedom is like light and the sun; one has to have lost them in order to understand that without them one cannot live. - Matteotti. - Man is so adaptable that he has even adapted to the darkness provided by authoritarian governments. So far more people are adapted to large degrees of despotism than to large degrees of freedom and few people have even envisioned, or tried to envision or collect all aspects of liberty. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM LITERATURE, PRESERVING, DUPLICATING AND DISTRIBUTING IT, LIBERTARIAN MICROFICHE PUBLISHING, MICROFICHE SELF-PUBLISHING, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA: "It is worth everything to preserve those oddments, to make them available to those who are graced with a thirst for them: or - nothing is worth at all." - William F. Buckley Jr., Execution Eve, Berkeley Publishing, 1972-75, 493: On Russian underground literature, alas, only on paper, hand-written or typed. - B. as a successful print on paper writer, editor & publisher, did to my knowledge, like most others writers, not discuss alternative media like microfiche, floppy disks and CD-ROMs and what they could mean for freedom writings. They imagine that as much as possible has already been done, on paper. Yes, on paper, and only as much as can be done with this medium! - J.Z., 23.4.00.

FREEDOM LOST: Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone. - Henry C. Wallich, Cost of Freedom.

FREEDOM MEANS MORE THAN THE DELUSION OF IMAGINING ONESELF ALREADY FREE: No one knew better than McCaine that a man who thinks he's free knocks his head against the wall. - from film: McCaine.

FREEDOM NOW & GRADUALISM: Nothing short of "freedom now" can really captivate the imagination of most people. - J.Z., 20.5.76. - But do people who confine their imagination to that slogan really have enough imagination about liberty? - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM NOW: If those shouting the "freedom now!" slogan were as energetically exploring the extent and limits of all kinds of liberties then we would enjoy more liberties now than we do now. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM NOW: You say you want freedom now. I wish I had your patience. - Bob Black.

FREEDOM OF ACTION & FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Without freedom of action, freedom of expression MAY lead to freedom but does not indicate freedom but rather oppression. People who disagree have still to obey the opinionated rulers. - J.Z., 8.6.82. - "Say whatever you like - but obey!" - ascribed to Frederic II, "the Great", who was not so great when he, a mercantilist, condemned an officer, who had advocated free trade, for this "offence" to lifelong imprisonment in Spandau. - Informant: Ulrich von Beckerath.

FREEDOM OF ACTION & FREEDOM OF MIND, PROPERTY & RIGHTS, REASON & IDEAS: Because freedom is a condition of human action as such, it is a condition for all human action. Indeed, the different rights, including the right to property and the right to liberty, merely specify different aspects of free action. The right to property is a recognition that man is not a disembodied spirit, that he lives in a material world and needs to make use of physical objects. The right to liberty is a recognition that man is not an automaton or an animal, that he must act on the basis of his reason, translating his ideas into reality. But the use of property and the use of the mind are not two different types of action; they are two different aspects of one type of action - human action. Each implies the other. - David Kelley, THE FREEMAN, 10/75.

FREEDOM OF ACTION & FREEDOM OF THOUGHT: Of what use if freedom of thought, if it will not produce freedom of action,… Swift.

FREEDOM OF ACTION & FREEDOM OF THOUGHT: There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage. - Seldes. - Territorial governments are largely organized to legally or bureaucratically deny freedom of action to their subjects, in the most important spheres, the political, economic and social spheres. Being in charge of these, they mostly do not care much about the rest. J.Z. - 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION & GOVERNMENT: The principle of government, which is force, is opposed to the free exercise of our ability to think, act and cooperate. - Fred Woodworth, Anarchism.

FREEDOM OF ACTION & INTEGRITY: Integrity cannot be taught; at best it can only be caught. And catching is impossible unless there be exemplars of this virtue. - From a reply envelope of FEE. - Perhaps the same could be said about freedom in all spheres. We have not a single precedent for this around us. So much so, that many people, even some libertarians, are afraid of at least some liberties, like e.g. full monetary freedom and fully free migration. The exceptions they would make would often outnumber their unqualified votes for liberties. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION & LIBERTARIANISM: With Herbert Spender and John Stuart Mill, we believe a person should be free to take any action, as long as it does not interfere with the liberty of anyone else. We call this point of view libertarianism. - From a REASON adv. in FREE ENTERPRISE, 9/72. - To what extent has "reason" advocated individual secessionism and full exterritorial autonomy? After a few years it got so concerned, in the main, with relative trivia, that I could no longer stand reading all of it. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION & LIFE, FREE CHOICE, DECISION-MAKING: What is the greatest gift of all? It is life itself. And what is life? The essential characteristic of life is the power to choose, to make decisions, to act. And that's another way of describing "freedom to", or freedom in action. We can say that the greater the freedom in action, the more life there is - or the higher the form of life. - Andre Spies, TC131p14.

FREEDOM OF ACTION & NATURAL LAW: Full freedom is the absence of restraints, other than natural ones, on an individual's actions. - Paul Lepanto, Return to Reason, 101.

FREEDOM OF ACTION & SPEECH: A life without free speech and action is literally dead to the world. - Source?

FREEDOM OF ACTION FOR GOVERNMENTS OR FOR CITIZENS? Freedom of action for governments is not only very different from but opposite to freedom of action for citizens. - J.Z., 26.1. 99, 22.3.99.

FREEDOM OF ACTION OR LICENSE FOR BUREAUCRATS & POLITICIANS? Freedom does not mean license for bureaucrats and politicians but freedom of action for ordinary citizens. - J.Z., 2/10/85.

FREEDOM OF ACTION, CONSTITUTIONALISM, LAW, LEGISLATION, REGULATIONS, GOVERNMENT, CLASSICAL LIBERTIES: "… the present "scholarly" development of American Constitutional Law has reached this conclusion: '… Your speech, writing and vote must be free from government interference, but beyond that you are free to do only what the government allows you to do.' - The whole field of American liberty has thus been reduced to free speech and a free vote. " - Clarence Manion, The Key to Peace, 67/68.

FREEDOM OF ACTION, FREEDOM IN SOCIETY, RIGHTS, COOPERATION, INTIATIVE: Freedom is not an abstract right but the possibility of acting: this is true among (anarchists) as well as in society as a whole. And it is by cooperation with his fellows that man finds the means to express his activity and his power of initiative. - Errico Malatesta, L'AGITAZIONE, June 11, 1897.

FREEDOM OF ACTION, OF CHOICE, INITIATION OF FORCE & MORALITY: Only responsible persons create prosperous and peaceful civilizations. But carrying out responsibility is possible only when people have freedom of action. If the State is allowed to limit human actions which do not initiate force or fraud against others, then not only are people's opportunities for acting according to their moral responsibility lost, but their very capacities to do so wither from disuse. The attainment of moral excellence is made possible by the freedom to choose. - World Research, Freedom to Choose.

FREEDOM OF ACTION, OPPORTUNITY, CONSTITUTIONS, LAWS: True liberty is not a mere scrap of paper called "constitution", "legal right", or "law." It is not a negative thing of being free from something, because with such freedom you may starve to death. Real freedom, true liberty, is positive: it is freedom to something; it is the liberty to be, to do; in short, the liberty of actual and active opportunity. - Emma Goldman, The Place of the Individual in Society, 1930's. - What a pity that she never realized how many freedom opportunities would arise from the realization of full economic freedom, especially full monetary and financial freedom. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION, STATISM, STATE, PANARCHISM, CUSTOM, HABIT, FAMILIARITY, IGNORANCE, PREJUDICE, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, TRADITION, FEAR OF FREEDOM, FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN, KNOWLEDGE, PROBLEMS, SOLUTIONS: People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. - Neil Postman, READER'S DIGEST, 8/76. - Most unemployed rather put up with the condition of unemployment & the dole and a few black market jobs rather than ponder the causes and cures for unemployment. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: "… are we being held in bondage, having lost control of ourselves, and our freedom of choice and action?" - Willis E. Stone, FREEDOM MAGAZINE, Spring 74. - How much are you, for instance, in control of politicians that you dislike and of bureaucrats and their spending and restrictions, by means of the kind of vote that your are permitted to give and the taxes your are forced to "subscribe"? - Are you free to secede from the bastards? - Have you seriously considered radically different ways of giving your consent, like voluntary state membership, paying for wanted common expenses via one or the other form of voluntary taxation or subscription, and of expressing your dissent not merely by protests but individual secessionism? - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: "… give the individual the freedom to do with his resources what will best meet his own goals. - R.C. Batten, THE FREEMAN, 3/73. - Replace "give" by: "leave"! - J.Z.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: "… Such being the reasons which make it imperative that human beings should be free to form opinions, and to express their opinions without reserve; and such the baneful consequences to the intellectual, and through that to the moral nature of man, unless this liberty is either conceded, or asserted in spite of prohibition; let us next examine whether the same reasons do not require that men should be free to act upon their opinions - to carry these out in their lives, without hindrance, either physical or moral, from their fellow-men, so long as it is at their own risk and peril. This last proviso is of course indispensable. No one pretends that action should be as free as opinions…" - J.S. Mill, On Liberty, 49-51. - At their own expense, too! - J.Z.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: "… the only moral and just society is one in which people have the right to act as they choose, to deal with each other on a voluntary basis, provided they do not violate that right of someone else."- Leaton Jay of Kingscliff, NSW, in a letter, reprinted in FREE ENTERPRISE, Sep./ Oct. 1975.

FREEDOM OF ACTION & MICROFILM OPPORTUNITIES: Does this action increase the liberty of, or even the opportunity for individuals and their volitional communities? If it does, I shall support it. - Karl Hess, The Lawless State. - Back in 1990 I had once a chance to ask him whether he still upheld his support for the microfilm options, which he passingly mentioned in at least one of his books. He had by then forgotten all about this remark and this option! - E.g: "The new technology, it has been exactly said, is neither labor intensive nor capital intensive. The storage and retrieval of information, so essential to a free society in which information is not hoarded but is disseminated, now give the capability of containing the information of the world's largest library in tiny microfiche dots which require less than a small roomful of file cabinets."- Dear America, 1975, p. 258. - Not that I can blame Hess in particular. My father, too, knew about microfilm options for decades - and never used it himself. Even I took about 30 years before I finally adopted this medium for my projects. I had always assumed that others would sufficiently use them and hand me the world's literature on a platter, on microfiche. - We have here an instance that important kinds of freedom of action can exist for a long time -without most people bothering to pick them up and use them in their causes. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: Freedom for music means freedom to feel, and freedom to feel means freedom to think, and freedom to think means freedom to act, and freedom of action means the ruin of states. … - D'Alembert, joint editor of the Encyclopedie, under: De la liberté de la musique. - Quoted in ENCOUNTER, 12/78, 45.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: Freedom of action avoids conflicts about minority and majority aspirations. - J.Z., 96, 99. - It renders election campaigns & parties & politicians and territorial States superfluous. It can assure peace, justice, freedom, prosperity for us, even life extension and intelligence expansion and the stars. But, do we bother to radically insist upon it and ponder and calculate its consequences and plan for it? Do we even bother to make use of all the powerful freedom of action opportunities that are still quite legal for us? - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: Give me the liberty to act according to conscience, without depriving anybody of the same freedom. - J.Z., in extension of Milton's saying on freedom of expression and information.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: If I could offer one rule that I think would get us out of our present difficulties, it would be in the form of an eleventh commandment to the Ten Commandments. That eleventh commandment would be "Thou shalt be free to do good at your own expense!" - Milton Friedman in Australia 1975, p. 65. - Thou shalt also be free to harm your person and wrong yourself, considered as a rational being, but thou shalt commit no wrong or injury to someone who did not volunteer for it. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: If you ask: "But what can I do?" you have not yet fully realized how much of your liberty you have handed over to politicians and bureaucrats. Demand your freedom of action back from them - or secede from them. Use you tax money for your own expenditures. Run your own budget. Make your own friends and enemies. But do not expect advice on how you can be free and act under the present system. - J.Z., n.d., around 1972. - Here is a good project for you: Compile all the freedom ideas, projects and suggestions that have been made and all their current supporters. Then involve yourself with one or any that interest you most. A short list of ca. 1,000 of them can be found in PEACE PLANS 20. A list of about 500 steps towards the avoidance of nuclear war can be found in PEACE PLANS 16-18. A list of about 50 of my own pet projects can be found on my website. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: It is only in freedom of action that a man's full powers are used and developed. - Dr. H.G. Pearce, GOOD GOVERNMENT, 12/71. - No wonder that most of the people that we do encounter are so uninspiring. They are the products of perpetual territorial kindergartens! - Top suggestion box schemes, like those of Matsushita and Sony have demonstrated how creative average people on the work place can be - given the opportunity and the incentive to do so. Compare also how creative many of them can be - in their own homes and gardens, to which their freedom of action is largely limited now. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: Liberty should be the constant measure of action. - Karl Hess, The Lawless State. - We need not only a standard and measure of action but also freedom of action, not only in our remaining private spheres but in the political, economic and social spheres. That requires exterritorial autonomy. Did Karl Hess clearly stand up for it? Where, when and how often? - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: Man can accomplish nothing without freedom to act. - Sprading, Freedom, 18. - Even if his present freedom of action were limited only to his microfilm opportunities, with this he could already achieve more than he has so far seriously striven for. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: One of the things which the British people most cherished was their own freedom of action, the right to do as they willed with their own, whether it was their labor, their property, or their skill. - Lord Halsbury, quoted by Ernest Barker, Political Thought In England 1848 to 1914, 128. - Hailsbury? - But did they bother to explore all spheres for freedom of action? - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: Only in action as the free expression of a person - or rather in the free act in which alone a person really exists - can persons come into relationship with persons. Such relationship is totally destroyed if the action is brought under the category of conformity to law. - Rudolf Bultmann, quoted in Bachman's Book of Freedom Quotations.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: SETTING AN EXAMPLE, DOING RIGHT, CONVINCING, CONVERTING, EDUCATION, ENLIGHTENMENT, PANARCHISM: If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. - H. D. Thoreau. - As if we were quite free, in all significant spheres, to do so. E.g., it may be quite right to ignore a military command or a tax assessment, but a bit risky under present conditions to do so. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: The basic test for freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. - Eric Hoffer, 1902 - ?, - A. Andrews Quotations, p. 180.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: The fundamental need of man in society is freedom of action, which means: recognition of his rights to actions over property which he morally owns, i.e., has a justifiable claim to, which means: Justice. - R.A. Childs, Jr., THE INDIVIDUALIST, May 71, p. 5. - Did he recall his criticism of Ayn Rand's notions on "competing governments", as some people have asserted? I would like to obtain and microfiche documentation on this, with my comments. - The same applies to Herbert Spencer withdrawal of his chapter on "The Right to Ignore the State", in the original edition of "Social Statics". J.Z.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: The political system we will build is contained in a single moral premise: No man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force. Every man will stand or fall, live or die by his rational judgment. If he fails to use it and falls, he will be his only victim. If he fears that his judgment is inadequate, he will not be given a gun to improve it. If he chooses to correct his errors in time, he will have the unobstructed example of his betters, for guidance in learning how to think; but an end will be put to the infamy of paying with one's life for the errors of another. - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 992. - Nevertheless, she opposed individual secessionism and its consequence: exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities or: competing governments. Few innovators are quite consistent and realize all the implications of their principles and inventions. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: Throughout history orators and poets have extolled liberty, but no one has told us why liberty is so important. (J.Z.: ???) Our attitude towards such matters should depend on whether we consider civilization as fixed or as advancing… In an advancing society, any restriction on liberty reduces the number of things tried and so reduces the rate of progress. In such a society freedom of action is granted to the individual, not because it gives him greater satisfaction but because if allowed to go his own way, he will on the average serve the rest of us better than under any orders we know how to give. - H. B. Phillips, On the Nature of Progress, quoted in The Free Man's Almanach, compiled by Leonard E. Read of FEE, also in THE FREEMAN, 12/73. - Nevertheless, neither Read nor FEE ever stood up for full exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities - or panarchism. Freedom lovers should develop their ideas to the utmost, not stop suddenly and assert: It is impossible or undesirable to go any further. - "Limited government is the ultimate for human organization!" - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: To act for my best advantage, I require freedom to act as I like, and, so long as I allow the same freedom to others, the just demands of others can no further go, as far as I am concerned. - John Badcock, Slaves to Duty.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: To destroy freedom of action is to destroy the possibility, and consequently the power, of choosing, of judging, of comparing; it amounts to destroying reason, to destroying thought, to destroying man himself. - Frederik Bastiat, quoted by Roche III, Bastiat, 213. - Freedom of action requires panarchic liberty, i.e., full exterritorial autonomy or experimental freedom for all volunteer communities. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: When men could act freely, there was a terrific outburst of human energy, transforming the world. - Rose Wilder Lane, The Discovery of Freedom, 1943.

FREEDOM OF ACTION: Why argue? Whatever you want to do, under freedom you could do as you please - at your own expense and risk. - J.Z., 23.11.75. - Concede the same right to all those who disagree with you and we can stop arguing. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATIONS, ASSOCIATIONISM: Freedom of association requires not only that no man shall be punished for founding or joining an association, but that, in default of any special reason to the contrary, an association once founded should be recognized as legally capable of holding property, making contracts, and employing and being employed, buying and selling like any ordinary citizen. It should have the power of growth and change within a general continuity of membership and purposes. - J. D. Mabbott, THE STATE AND THE CITIZEN, 23- Why exclude full exterritorial autonomy? - J.Z., 22.3.99.

FREEDOM OF CHOICE: The right to impose one's own choice on others is severely limited by natural law. It is even limited with regard to one's own children - to a certain age and to orders for their protection and the protection of one's own rights. Obviously, it is at least as much, if not much more restricted concerning the children of others and regarding other adults. - J.Z., 1965. - Laws don't make a rightful exception. - J.Z., 31.7.78.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & FREEDOM OF ACTION: A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. - Napoleon I, Maxims, 1804-15. - Alas, because they have some fine words for them, they also come to believe that they can successfully practise some unworkable schemes. Freedom of expression, e.g. by demagogues, must be kept in bounds e.g. by an encyclopaedia of the best refutations and by freedom to experiment, which would daily demonstrate the falsehood of certain notions. - J.Z., 21.1.85. - Typically for a ruler, he gave them neither freedom of expression nor freedom of action. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & HONESTY: Everyman who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist" (public opinion). Everyman who expresses what he honestly thinks is changing the Spirit of the Times. - Elbert Hubbard, Pig-Pen PeteP The Bee. - Not only understanding, honesty, courage and accurate expression are required but also sufficient publicity. Otherwise, only one person's mind may be changed or those of a few, who are not, for the time being, the decisive decision-makers, outside of their permitted own small spheres. - J.Z., 1.4.99.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & LAWS: Freedom of expression does not really exist as long as one group (e.g. the majority) can make laws to enforce the practice of its opinions. People can only protest but have to obey the legally enforced opinions of others. - J.Z., 8.6.82.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & MAJORITIES: "… the rule of the majority is with us yet more tempered, less violent and unscrupulous, than it is in some other countries; but give their full weight to all those modifying influences, which as yet restrain our system of the conquering and the conquered races from finding its full development - still they do not alter the main, the essential fact, that we are content to live under a system that vests the rights of citizenship, the share in the common country, the ownership of body, faculties, and property, and to some extent, the ownership of mind and soul, of, say, two-fifth of the nation in the hands of the three-fifths. Such is the system in which we think it right and self-respecting to acquiesce - a system which, in the case of every two men out of five, wipes out at a stroke, so far as the duties of citizenship are concerned, and even to a large extent as regards their personal relations, all the higher parts of their nature, their judgment, conscience, will - treating them as degraded criminals, who, for some unrecorded offence have deserved to forfeit all the great natural rights, and to lose their true rank as men. They tell us that nowadays men are not punished for their opinions. They succeed in forgetting, I suppose, the case of every two men out of five. - Auberon Herbert, Mr. Spencer and the Great Machine, 55.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & PANARCHISM: Democracies tolerate the expression of radical opinions in small circles but not their application among volunteers. - J.Z., 29.12.86.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND ACTION: The end? Clear as crystal: the freedom of everyone to express his uniqueness and seek his own gain. - Leonard E. Read, THE FREEMAN, 2/74. - Logically, the "of everyone" implies the equal freedom of others. But misunderstandings are common and persistent. Too many still equate their wrongful powers over others with their own personal freedom. As long as this is the case all formulations of freedom should be made "foolproof". - J.Z., 16.4.00. - As much or as little is the aspiration and action of most people nowadays. They talk and read and write and protest a bit and they make some money, in form of government currency, for their private use - and put up with a lot, in all the rest. - Read favoured even monetary freedom, in short and all to general terms. But he wanted to limit political organization to territorial limited governments. In this respect he did not release his own creative energies but rather self-limited them. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, EVEN DURING WARS: To speak his thought is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight. - Homer, in the Iliad, as translated by Pope. - C. Bingham, Men & Affairs, 196. - Well, at least some secrets, during some rightful defensive actions in wars, have to be preserved to save lives among these defenders. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, LIES & MORALITY: From a moral point of view, at least, freedom of expression does not include the right to lie as a deliberate instrument of policy. - Commission on Freedom of the Press: A Free and Responsible Press, U. of Chicago Press, 1947. - Seldes. - Are immoral people entitled to hear all truth, if they could use them to infringe the liberties of others even more? - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Give me the liberty to know, to think, to believe, and to utter freely, according to conscience, above all other liberties. - John Milton. - From L.E. Read's The Free Man's Almanach, Dec. 3.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. - Attributed to Voltaire by S.G. Tallentyre (E. Beatrice Hall), in her book, The Friends of Voltaire (p.199), published in 1906, but later stated by her to be a summary of Voltaire's attitude toward De l'Ésprit by Claude'Adrien Helvétius. (The quotation book I copied this from, which one? contains further notes on the origin of this saying.)

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: I say there can be no safety for these States without innovators - without free tongue, and ears willing to hear the tongues. - Walt Whitman. - Territorial States can increase their safety by converting to exterritorial States, formed by volunteers only. This requires no more than letting all dissenters secede. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be not more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ch. 2. - Seldes.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: If there is a principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought - not free for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Dissent, U.S. vs. Schwimmer. - Seldes. - Was the U.S. constitution so thoughtless as to write of "freedom of thought"? - Freedom of thought is a rather thoughtless expression - since even dictators have difficulties in greatly infringing it, apart from killing thinkers or subjecting them to torture. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: THE NEW FREEDOM - Those in full agreement with the government may say anything the government wants them to say. - Max Nomad, A Skeptic's Political Dictionary, 1953, 161.

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all Americans are in peril. - Harry S. Truman, N.Y. TIMES MAGAZINE. - There was censorship involved in "Project Manhattan" but, I believe that it was partly justified, to keep at least for a while such devices out of the hands of even more totalitarian territorial regimes. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT: "…. freedom of movement for men, for goods, and for money." - Gustav Stolper, This Age of Fable, 1943, p. 21. - He even advocates a degree of monetary freedom in this book. - J.Z.

FREEDOM OF PRESS: Freedom of press can only be achieved without the press! - J.Z., 25.8.85. - The paradox is solved if one considers the alternative media options for freedom of expression, like microfiche, floppy disks and text-only CD-ROMs, media which almost anyone can afford for extensive self-publishing. - J.Z., 25.6.85, 17.4.00.

FREEDOM OF PRESS: Freedom of press presupposes privately owned presses (not to mention a free flow of newsprint). - John A. Davenport, THE INTERCOLLEGIATE REVIEW, Spring 73, 149. - Freedom of press, in our times, does not confine us to paper, print and presses. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OPEN AIR SPEAKING, SPEAKERS' CORNERS: I favour freedom of speech every day of the week, e.g. in THE DOMAIN, why don't you? I favour freedom of speech anywhere, on one's own private property or on property in which one has a share but it being still public property, like most present roads, plazas and parks are. Do you want this freedom of speech or do you oppose it? Do the present restrictions go on with your consent or in spite of your opinions on the subject? - J.Z., n.d., about 1972.

FREEDOM OF THE LEFT: The position of the Left is to somehow believe that if a person can smoke pot, be a homosexual and speak his or her mind, then that person is free - even though he or she might be told how much to earn, what businesses to start, under what conditions to work, and so on. - Bob Howard & John Singleton, Rip Van Australia, 11. - The freedom ideas of most people are all too incomplete still. Help to provide guides and handbooks and encyclopedias that could greatly help to complete their freedom notions. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM OF THE PEOPLE & OF INDIVIDUALS: Max Stirner, on page 249 of the Reclam edition, says: "The people's freedom is not MY freedom." - Quite right, but the suppression of the people means inevitably also the suppression of the individual. (Nazi & communist regimes.) Both freedoms must coexist side by side - a task which, indeed, can never be solved completely. (Kant held that this should be expressed as follows: The problem is to be solved by means of progress continuing endlessly.) - Note by Ulrich von Beckerath, 19.3.54. I hold that panarchies, based upon individual secessionism & exterritorial autonomy for all volunteer communities would come close enough to solving this problem. - J.Z. 3.4.00. - Also quoted or expressed by S. E. Parker in MINUS ONE, June 68.

FREEDOM OF THE SEAS: That the person of our citizens shall be safe in freely traversing the ocean, that the transportation of our own produce, in our own vessels, to the markets of our own choice, and the return to us of the articles we want for our own use, shall be unmolested, I hold to be fundamental, and the gauntlet that must be forever hurled at him who questions it. - Thomas Jefferson, Writings, xiv, 301. - Alas, he did not extend the principle involved in "freedom of the seas" to land surfaces, although on land exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities would make it possible as well. One land this liberty is even more important and urgent to finally achieve peace, justice, prosperity, security and progress, to the extent that they are desired by the greatly diverse groups of volunteers. Not only international and internal free trade is involved but all exchanges, all contracts, all non-criminal intentions, all creative actions. As Bastiat said: "Society is exchange." - See under Panarchism. - J.Z., 5.4.99.

FREEDOM STRUGGLE, SUCCESS, PROFIT, MARKETING FREEDOM IDEAS: If we were to let ourselves be guided in our pro-freedom actions exclusively by financial profit and loss accounts then we would have given up the struggle for liberties and rights long ago. - J.Z., 9.4.97.

FREEDOM THINKERS & FREEDOM FIGHTERS, IDEAS: Presently we need freedom thinkers more than freedom fighters. - J.Z., 23.6.99. And we may need compilers of freedom ideas and information more than new freedom thinkers. Clerks for liberty - to make full use of all the pro-freedom treasury of thought and ideas that has already accumulated - dispersed, buried, inaccessible, unknown and unappreciated by most, also out of print, if ever published before. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM TO ACT: To Herbert, writing during the late 19^th century and the beginning of the 20^th century, "you will not make people wiser and better by taking liberty of action from them. A man can only learn when he is free to act. It is the consequences of his own actions, and the consequences of these same actions as he sees them in other persons, that teach him." Mack, introduction to Auberon Herbert, The Right & Wrong of Compulsion, p. 125. - E.g., sound ideas on monetary freedom will become wide-spread only under its spractice. False and stupid ideas on money flourish under monetary despotism. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM TO BE UNFREE: You should be able to be as free or unfree as you want to be. - J.Z., 23.4.76.

FREEDOM TO ERR & TO MAKE MISTAKES: Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. - Gandhi, SATURDAY REVIEW, March 1, 1959. - Seldes. - Compare Goethe: Freedom is the right to do that which is reasonable.

FREEDOM TO EXPERIMENT, PANARCHISM: Both, the more enlightened and the ignorant, misled or prejudiced, need not only freedom of expression and information to inform themselves or be informed sufficiently - but also freedom to experiment, among like-minded volunteers, or at least the chance to observe such experiments by others. - J.Z., 19.9.94? 97? & 6.4.00.

FREEDOM UNDER PANARCHISM, COMBINED WITH RACISM, ETHNOCENTRISM AND NATIONALISM: Assume England under these conditions. Assume also that in spite of the differences of the Welsh, Scotch & Irish - & other local differences, they would think alike to wish to preserve "pure" Englishmen and their institutions in England and would exclude from membership, in their own exterritorially autonomous panarchy e.g. all Chinese. That would not hinder those Chinese (also a mixed "race", only with them it goes usually back much further), who wanted to live and work in England and under the English Constitution, laws, jurisdiction and customs, to do so, as a matter of their individual choices. They might then or might not exclude "pure" Englishmen from their English-Chinese system - or they might accept "good enough" English gentlemen as members & good enough other Chinese as English gentlemen in their English-Chinese society or might be quite cosmopolitan in their acceptance of other groups of people. Perhaps these English Chinese will become more English than the English - or, perhaps, they might come to make further improvements upon the English system and then exclude any English riff-raff from membership in their society of progressive English-Chinese gentlemen. That would be up to them. Each member of each volunteer community would only have cause to complain about the own mistakes within the own community - and about the few cases of individual aggressions against members of other communities, that might still occur, human nature being what it is. That they can get along with each other, they have long demonstrated in Hong Kong and in the former China, in foreign concessions under still unequal treaty status. But, under our assumptions, no one would have any good reason for being afraid of the other. Naturally, Englishmen should also insist upon equal treaty status for their settlement in China, as good & free Englishmen. Nor could the majority of Chinese rightly prevent Chinese minorities from doing their things for and to themselves, in England, China and the rest of the world. How much would the anti-Chinese sentiment among native Englishmen be reduced if they would see millions of Chinese voluntarily adopting their system, living it, maintaining it voluntarily among themselves but, e.g., - without crowding Englishmen e.g. in their exclusive clubs? How long would their antagonism last if they would see that most of these Chinese would behave as better English gentlemen than most English natives would? One day they might laugh and shake all these artificial barriers off - but, those who wanted to, could keep them up indefinitely. How small racism becomes under the free contract system is already indicated by the non-Chinese customers of Chinese laundries and restaurants. - J.Z., 2.5.00.

FREEDOM VS. AUTHORITY: You can impose authority but you cannot impose freedom. - Colin Ward, ANARCHY IN ACTION, 135.

FREEDOM VS. COMPULSION: There is a real grandeur in the New England spirit, which puts above self-safety the liberties of alien peoples. - The ideal development of civilization is to do away with compulsion, in order to achieve the results of compulsion by the free will of the individuals. - Compulsion destroys initiative and saps independence. Conversely - liberty creates initiative and fosters independence. - Josiah C. Wedgwood.

FREEDOM VS. EQUALITY: "By & large, those in the world who placed freedom above equality have done better by equality than those who placed equality above freedom, have done by freedom." - Shimon Peres, quoted by: - William F. Buckley, Jr., Inveighing We Will Go, Putnams, 1969-72, 194.

FREEDOM VS. EQUALITY: The moment we invade liberty to secure equality we enter upon a road which knows no stopping-place short of the annihilation of all that is best in the human race. - Benjamin R. Tucker, in a short set of quotations from him compiled by Joe Labadie.

FREEDOM VS. FREE & EASY: We have confused the free with the free & easy. - Adlai Stevenson, Putting First Things First, 1960.

FREEDOM VS. OPPRESSION: You bought a lot of oppression so far. Why not buy freedom now? - J.Z., 12/72. - You could do worse than starting by buying some information on your microfilm freedom of expression and information opportunities. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM VS. RESTRAINT: Liberty or freedom is not, as the origin of the name may seem to imply, an exception from all restraints, but rather the most effectual application of every just restraint to all members of a free society whether they be magistrates or subjects. - Adam Ferguson.

FREEDOM VS. SLAVERY: Slavery: The condition of, or like that of a slave; bondage. A slave is defined as: A person held in bondage; one who has lost control of himself and his freedom of action. - Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 5^th ed.

FREEDOM VS. SLAVERY: We've tried slavery - now let's try freedom. - PROTOS, Nov. 70. - In Bastiat's Economic Harmonies there is a similar expression. - J.Z.

FREEDOM VS. STATISM, SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY: Individual freedom instead of State worship. - John Hargraves, 1940, Words Win Wars. - So far we have not given all the words for liberty their best chance yet - by combining them. See the SLOGANS FOR LIBERTY project. - J.Z.

FREEDOM VS. TAXES: Let the people have freedom and a full paycheck … - R. S. Jaggard, JAG, July 21, 1972.

FREEDOM VS. VOTING: "… The right of the individual to choose or refuse one thing at a time." - Ascribed to Major C.H. Douglas by Dennis Byrne. - The right to an individual vote within a collectivist voting system, for one or the other package deal, offered by one or the other party or "independent" candidate, does not give an individual sufficient options, especially not when he is not a member of the majority. Only if he could freely choose - for himself, and at his own expense and risk only - among dozens to hundreds of panarchies and their package deals, offering various governments and free society systems, could he come close to voting, one by one, on all significant items. Under such conditions he might also vote for a world-wide society (of volunteers, only exterritorially autonomous) which lets the world market freely operate for all its members, which means that he could then shop around for each bargain and service offered, at least by the members of this society, and, to the extent that it unilaterally trades freely with all other societies in the world, he could then freely choose among all the goods and services offered by others, too. To that extent he would come close to consumer sovereignty as a result of his individual sovereignty. - J.Z., 1.4.00.

FREEDOM VS. WELFARISM OR CHARITY: Freedom, rather than State "welfare" or "charity": freedom to produce and exchange, and thereby to support oneself and one's dependents independently, without let or hindrance except that of free contracts, the equal rights of others and, in practice, the consumer sovereignty of others towards one's own goods, services and labour. But one should never overlook that to be successful the system of economic freedom must be complete enough. Primarily, in a division of labour and free exchange society, this requires monetary and financial freedom. - J.Z., 4.5.91, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM WORKS BETTER: Freedom works better than any alternative you might care to name. - J.Z., 4/76.

FREEDOM WORKS: "Freedom works" as A. S. Neil said - but mostly it is not allowed to work. - J.Z., 11/72. - "Freedom works."- Roche III, Bastiat, 233.

FREEDOM WORKS: … freedom not only works, but is the only thing which works. - Joseph P. Martino, Defending a Free Society, p. 131. - If he hadn't copyrighted it, I would have microfiched this work. How many other freedom writings are still unpublished or out of print because of copyrights claims? - J.Z., 10.4.00. - Totalitarianism also "works", at least for a while, enough to keep totalitarians in the saddle, for all too long. The same can be said for all other kinds of territorial governments - although governments and free societies that are only exterritorially autonomous would work much better for all their members. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM WORKS: Bastiat thus possessed a faith that "freedom works". He believed that no amount of propaganda could indefinitely keep that fact a secret from the men who compose society. Such a fundamental faith is more needed today than ever before. - G. C. Roche III, Bastiat, 233. - Ignorance, prejudice and lack of interest have kept the faith in freedom rather restricted to all too few for all too long. But if these few had bothered to combine all their knowledge and make it easily, cheaply and permanently accessible to all, in all major languages, much more could have been achieved than was by all freedom struggles so far. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM WORKS: Freedom works, only freedom works - and yet people still ignore or doubt the evidence. - Much of the evidence is still largely hidden, remaining either unpublished, out of print or untranslated. Non one has ever seen all of it working and not many people have seen much of it working or, wherever it is still working, they have not understood it as such. Even the understanding of capitalism is still very limited. - J.Z., 13.12.76 & 11.4.00.

FREEDOM WORKS: Freedom works. Only freedom works. And it can provide paid work, earned prosperity for all, even peace, security, order and justice. When will you be prepared to give it its chances in every sphere? - J.Z., 15.8.95, 6.4.00. Even mere re-reading, some time later, by the same person, suggests already some improvements. Each or the freedom quotes here should be read and improved by thousands. - J.Z., 6.4.00.

FREEDOM, & CHOICE: He is free who lives as he chooses. - Epictetus, Discourses, book for, ch. 1. - Not the one who interferes as he chooses. - J.Z., 30.3.99.

FREEDOM, A BASIC HUMAN REQUIREMENT: What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion. - Epictetus, Discourses, 2^nd. century, 4.1, tr. Thomas W. Higginson.

FREEDOM, A BOURGEOIS PREJUDICE? "When Lenin - much in the style of Mussolini - dared to say that 'freedom is a bourgeois prejudice' …" - Rocker, N.& C., 238. - Much against his will he has thereby revealed a positive aspect of the bourgeois, as my friend Ulrich von Beckerath used to say. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, A CRAVING: Freedom is the most ineradicable craving of human nature. Without it peace, contentment, and happiness, even manhood itself, are not possible. - General Smuts. - If you see your children and grandchildren grow up you cannot help but notice how early that craving asserts itself. As soon as they can manage to handle a spoon they do no longer want to be spoon-fed. Only sometimes, as a favour to mum or dad, and with a bit persuasion, they still let them do it. - To mention just one of numerous little instances. - J.Z. 10.4.00. - If regular and good and balanced meals are better for children, should they have unlimited snacking opportunities in-between, i.e., should their freedom be restricted in this respect? - Perhaps we need safes more for sweets than for valuables? - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, A NECESSITY: Freedom is like air, not so much an end in itself, as an utter necessity for accomplishing anything. - John Harlee, S.L. Messenger, Sept. 81. - At least anything lasting and really valuable. - J.Z., 11.4.00. - But if you want to survive, better do not, e.g., totally and openly refuse to pay all taxes still demanded of you. Otherwise you will be dead or at best breathe only the air of prisons. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, ABDICATION OF ONE'S LIBERTIES: To abdicate one's liberties means to abdicate one's human dignity, human rights and even one's duties. - Rousseau. - How should one label the refusal to make optimal use of the remaining freedom of expression and information opportunities offered by affordable and efficient as well as long lasting alternative media? I find not words strong enough for this. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, ABSOLUTE, WILL, DOING AS ONE LIKES, EQUAL FREEDOM: To do as you like, if you like to invade, is not equal freedom. - Sprading, Freedom, 244.

FREEDOM, ABSOLUTE OR EQUAL FREEDOM? There is no absolute freedom. There exists only the equal freedom of all. The equal freedom of all affects your freedom as soon as you come into contact with others. Then it is no longer absolute, as it is when you are alone. - John Henry Mackay, Abrechnung, 167.

FREEDOM, ABSOLUTE, ERRORS, OBJECTIONS AND PREJUDICES: Freedom must be absolute. Otherwise it is valueless. - Popular opinion. It coexists with another popular opinion: Total freedom means chaos! - Are freedom of speech, press, assembly and association, freedom of trade and migration valueless if not accompanied by all other liberties? - "We look with deep aversion upon the way primitive peoples are attached to their lawless liberty - a liberty which enables them to fight incessantly rather than subject themselves to the restraint of the law to be established by themselves; in short, to prefer wild freedom to a reasonable one. We look upon such an attitude as raw, uncivilized, and an animalic degradation of humanity. Therefore, one should think, civilized peoples (each united in a state) would hasten to get away from such a depraved state as soon as possible. Instead, each state insists upon seeing the essence of its majesty (for popular majesty is a paradox) in this, that it is not subject to any external coercion. The luster of its rulers consists in this, that many thousands are at his disposal to be sacrificed for a cause which is of no concern to them, while he himself is not exposed to any danger…" - Kant, Eternal Peace, in: Carl J. Friedrich, The Philosophy of Kant, p. 442. - Alas, this is a statist and legal notion of liberty too, not the best way to describe the opposite to the arbitrary freedom of savages: freedom among enlightened and civilized people with ideas similar enough for them to want to establish a voluntary community for themselves. - J.Z. 7.4.00.

FREEDOM, ABSOLUTE, FOR EVERYONE: I recall one ten-second bit on MacBride on the network news in which his position was summed up as "absolute freedom for absolutely everyone". I can't imagine a better way to put the libertarian position in such a short time… - Erwin S. "Filthy Pierre" Strauss, TC66p60.

FREEDOM, ABSOLUTE, MUTUAL, EQUAL: Equal freedom is mutual freedom; absolute freedom is unequal freedom. - Sprading, Freedom, 244. - Absolute freedom for one only is not absolute freedom. To be absolute, freedom it must be absolute freedom for all. And that absolute freedom finds its absolute limit in the absolutely equal freedom of all others. Should there be absolute freedom in our literature to use words carelessly and negligently? Should we be stuck with such abuse, without corrections and criticism added, for years to decades, or should they be freely added, in all reproductions on cheap alternative media? And should we compile all the revised wordings in special reference works? - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, ABSOLUTE, NOT HYPHENATED: The basic point is that freedom is absolute. There is no such thing as semi-freedom, orderly-freedom, reasonable freedom or any other form of hyphenated freedom. Freedom either exists or it does not. - QUADRANT, Sep. 75. - A have compiled a still very incomplete survey of hyphenated notions of anarchism, that requires many participatory efforts to bring it close to completion. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, ABSTRACTION & NEED: Freedom is not a living, thinking being and not like a plant or domesticated animal to be watered and nurtured and protected and propagated. Freedom no more has needs than it has eyes to see. Rather, it is an abstraction; indeed, it is not a thing in itself but, instead, an absence of some things: deadening restraints on creative action. - One may harangue businessmen about their "obligations" to uphold and maintain a climate of freedom, shame teachers for neglect of their "responsibilities", condemn the apathy of voters. But freedom does not need these persons or groups - or you or me. The concept stands, whether or not anyone supports it. The question is: Does the individual need freedom? And my answer is, "Yes, indeed!" - Leonard E. Read, Let Freedom Reign, 116/117. - But do they want freedom enough to be willing to undertake all the laborious steps required to mobilize and apply all freedom ideas, principles, experience and knowledge? That remains to be seen. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, ABUSE OF THE WORD: "The word 'freedom' is used for many purposes - & sometimes it is even used in the interests of freedom." - Source?

FREEDOM, ABUSES & EXCELLENCE: Under every free system there will be abuses; but only under free systems can there be real excellence. - Auberon Herbert, The Sacrifice of Education to Examination, 194. - Some great are and some great freedom writings were produced even under despotism. - Where we are free to do so, do we make the best use of all our freedom ideas, principles, definitions, slogans, texts, knowledge, references, resources and talents? J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, ACTION & CREATIVITY: The good news concerns the private ownership and control of scarce and valuable resources and the voluntary exchange of goods and services in open competition - with government limited to keeping the peace and invoking a common justice. The good news is that we better serve ourselves and others when free to act creatively as each chooses. - Leonard E. Read, NOTES FROM FEE, 5/80.

FREEDOM, ACTION & THOUGHT: Freedom is a necessary presupposition of all action as well as of all thinking. - H. J. Paton, The Moral Law, page 42.

FREEDOM, ADVICE, DICTATION, DECISION & ACTION: As Godwin observed, a person may advise others but he should not dictate. "He may censure me freely and without reserve; but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his." Public opinion would undoubtedly play an important part in an anarchist society in encouraging social cohesion and in dissuading 'wrong-doers'… - Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible, 651.

FREEDOM, AFFLUENCE & WEALTH: For freedom to survive, free men and women must survive. The affluence that accompanies freedom is not a requirement, but a very pleasant side effect. Given freedom, wealth follows; take freedom away, and there will be wealth only for masters. - Jerry Pournelle, in FAR FRONTIERS, Fall 85, page 10, commenting on: Vernor Vinge: The Ungoverned.

FREEDOM, AGGRESSION & INVASION: "Freedom" or "Liberty" is … rigorously defined in such a credo as: the absence of invasion. A man is free when he is not being aggressed against; and all men, or "society" is free when no aggression or invasion is being committed. - Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty, 8.

FREEDOM, AGGRESSION & INVASION: If no man may aggress against - invade - the person or property of another, this means that every man is free to do whatever he wishes, except to commit such aggression. The great 19^th century libertarian theorist Herbert Spencer formulated as similar axiom: "Law of Equal Liberty". - Murray N. Rothbard, For a New Liberty, 8.

FREEDOM, ALL OF FREEDOM, NOT PART OF IT: "Freedom can only be the whole of freedom; a piece of freedom is not freedom. - Mackay, Stirner, 142, quoting Stirner. - While it is not ALL of freedom, it is still a PIECE of freedom. Even a piece of bread or cake is better than no bread or cake. Admittedly, we should never be contented with having achieved just one piece of it or imagine that this would be all that could be attained. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM, AMERICANISM, FOUNDING FATHERS, AMERICAN REVOLUTION: This American action did not occur as a rational prognosis of better things to come, for these forebears of ours hadn't the slightest idea of what lay in store for them except that each could be his own man. They chose freedom for freedom's sake alone: hang the economic or other consequences. - Leonard E. Read, Let Freedom Reign, 12.

FREEDOM, AMONG THE UNFREE: Be free among the unfree - as far as this is possible. - J.Z., 25.11.76. - Use all the remaining liberties to the fullest, to expand them towards full liberty. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, ANARCHISM & MANCHESTERISM: For the principle of Manchesterism is liberty, and consistent Manchesterism is consistent adherence to liberty … genuine Anarchism is consistent Manchesterism. - Benjamin R. Tucker, quoted in: Michael Wreszin, The Superfluous Anarchist Albert Jay Nock, Brown U.P., Providence, 1972, 4.

FREEDOM, ANGER, FRUSTRATION, IDEAS: Don't blow your top. Expand your mind and your liberty - with sound freedom ideas and programs. - J.Z., 18.1.95.

FREEDOM, ANSWER, NOT PROBLEM: Freedom is the answer, not the problem! - J.Z., 25.1.73. - Alas, still in our times, most people consider it to be a problem rather than the solution. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, ANSWERS, SOLUTIONS & CURES: I don't have answers for every problem. I know only that freedom has the answers for everything, simply because it liberates the creative energies of all. I merely know some of the numerous answers that are based upon freedom. - J.Z., 25.9.90.

FREEDOM, ANSWERS, SOLUTIONS: Freedom has the answer to every problem - even if this is visible only after some persistent study of the new science of freedom. - J.Z., 4/1976.

FREEDOM, APATHY & INDIFFERENCE: Full freedom won't make much progress in this world until more people take a serious interest in it. So far many of its choices and opportunities are neglected even by those who think of themselves as freedom lovers. - J.Z., 2.4.96.

FREEDOM, APPEARANCES ARE DECEPTIVE: So free we seem, so fettered fast we are! - Robert Browning, Andrea del Sarto. - The "Free World", the "Free West", the countries newly "liberated" from communism, are still unfree. E.g., they still suffer under central banking and other political and bureaucratic evils. - J.Z., 10.4.00.

FREEDOM, APPETITES, RESTRAINTS & JUSTICE: Man is only ready for freedom to the extent that he is willing to check his appetite, to demonstrate a stronger love of justice than of immediate gain. As Edmund Burke has suggested, the less restraint exercised within each individual in this regard, the more restraint must be exercised by the society in which the individual lives. If men are to stay truly free, the must have the capability of self-restraint. … The free society is the society in which each individual voluntarily says, 'I am my own responsibility'. - George C. Roche III, Power, part 4, Prospects, THE FREEMAN, Sep. 67, pp 551 & 552.

FREEDOM, AS A PRINCIPLE: What interested me especially is that during this period I have discovered scarcely a corporal's guard of persons who had any conception whatever of liberty as a principle, let alone caring for any specific vindications of it as such. On the other hand, I have met many who were very eloquent about liberty as affecting some matter of special interest to them, but who were authoritarian as the College of Cardinals on other matters. Prohibition brought out myriads of such, so did the various agitations about censorship, free speech, minority-rights of Negroes, Jews, Indians; and among all whom I questioned I did not find a baker's dozen who were capable of perceiving any inconsistency in their attitude. - Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Harper, 1943, 314.

FREEDOM, ATROCITIES: Freedom, … What atrocities are committed in thy name! …. It all depends on what is meant by freedom. - Eric Frank Russell, Dreadful Sanctuary, p. 40.

FREEDOM, AUTHORITY & CENTRALIZATION: Freedom is not possible under centralized authority. - Miller Upton, THE FREEMAN, 9/74. - Not even if there existed only one government in the world, a limited world government? For me it would not go far enough - or, in some ways, too far, but the limited government advocates should be pleased with it. - J.Z., 15.4.00.

FREEDOM, AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY:... the philosophy of Freedom demanded higher standards of personal responsibility than a belief in authority. - View of Alex Comfort, reported in: Colin Ward, ANARCHY IN ACTION, 75.

FREEDOM, AUTHORITY, PRIVILEGES & FASCISM: Mussolini has in fact made of freedom a privilege for himself, and to do this has brought about the most brutal suppression of all others; for freedom which tries to replace man's responsibility towards his fellow men by the senseless dictum of authority is sheer willfulness and a denial of all justice and all humanity. But even despotism needs to justify itself to the people whom it violates. To meet this necessity the state concept of fascism was born. - Rudolf Rocker, Nationalism and Culture, 242.

FREEDOM, AUTONOMY & DECISION-MAKING: "… degree of autonomy or independence in the taking of decisions. - Prof. Kemp.

FREEDOM, BATTLE FOR FREEDOM, BE PREPARED: A man should never put on his best trousers when he goes out to battle for freedom and truth. - Henrik Ibsen.

FREEDOM, BETTER TAKEN THAN GIVEN: … it's better for people to take their freedom rather than be given it. - Ken Follett, Triple, Futura Publications, 1980, 42.

FREEDOM, BLESSINGS: There has been conferred upon American industry an opportunity and a mission, to show, by precept and especially by example, that if men are free they can acquire life's richest spiritual and material blessings with honor and without strife. - Admiral Ben Moreell, The Admiral's Log II, page 111.

FREEDOM, BONDAGE, CHAINS, FETTERS: Whoever was never in fetters knows nothing about freedom. - Jakob Bosshart, Bausteine. - Whoever was largely bound, physically and mentally, does not know much of it, or enough, either. - J.Z., 11/85.

FREEDOM, BONDAGE, STATISM, RATIONALIZATIONS: Men who are not free always idealize their bondage. - Boris Pasternak, Dr. Shivago, 470.

FREEDOM, BONDS & CHAINS UNSEEN OR UNNOTICED: Many imagine themselves free and do not see the ropes that bind them. - Rueckert, Gedichte, V, Buch: Wanderung, 3. (Mancher waehnt sich frei und siehet/ Nicht die Bande, die ihn schnueren.) Another, older translation attempt: Many a man imagines himself free and does not see the ropes which tie him down.

FREEDOM, BORN FREE: I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed! Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by a cord and is incapable of looking after himself for at least 7 years (seventy in some cases). - Katherine Whitehorn, How to Survive Children.

FREEDOM, CARTE BLANCHE: Give carte blanche to freedom! - J.Z., 25.9.75. - Carte blanche to freedom! - J.Z., 31.7.78.

FREEDOM, CHANCE, PROGRESS, BETTERMENT & SLAVERY: Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse. - Albert Camus. - To be better or to do better? - J.Z.

FREEDOM, CHANGE & EXCHANGE: Freedom is the fluid accommodation of all change - through exchange. - Joan Marie Leonard, THE FREEMAN, 3/77. The longer version follows:

FREEDOM, CHOICE & CHANGES: The Choice of X-Changes. Authoritarian plans are solidified obstructions to change. Freedom is the fluid accommodation of all change - through exchange. And maybe we should spell that X-change, because X is for the unknown and freedom brings change in unexpected ways and in forms unimaginable by any one or group. - Joan Marie Leonard, THE FREEMAN, 3/77. - I think "any" or "a" should have been inserted before "group". - J.Z. - We have the freedom to make full use of e.g. microfiche, floppy disks and CD-ROMs to publish fully, permanently and cheaply all freedom writings in all major languages. No "fluid adaption" to new changes is required. Only a change of our reading and publishing habits, using long available alternative media. Are we capable of that? If not, what are we capable of and what are our chances to change the behavior patterns of others, if we can't even change our own habits in such a small way? - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, CHOICE & FREEDOM OF ACTION: Professor Muller defines freedom as "the condition of being able to choose and to carry out our purposes … a state in which a person may decide for himself what is right and good … what kind of a self to become." The condition of freedom, as Muller describes them, are "uncertainty, instability, a measure of disunity and disorder" seem to have made many men … acutely uncomfortable. Yet these conditions also describe the nature of human life on earth. - Edith Adamson, reviewing Herbert I Muller's book: Freedom in the Ancient World, V. I., New York, Harper, 1962. PRAJ Ref. 12971.

FREEDOM, CHOICE & RESPONSIBILITY: Freedom of choice guarantees progress, but, as has been well said by G.B. Shaw: "Freedom means responsibility; that's why most men dread it." - Henry Meulen, Free Banking, 315.

FREEDOM, CHOICE & SERFDOM: There was in fact that freedom of choice without which Professor Hayek has shown that life is mere serfdom. - Sir Ernest Benn, The State the Enemy, 59.

FREEDOM, CHOICE & TRADE: Do not surrender your freedom of choice and freedom to trade. -Paul L. Poirot, THE FREEMAN, 5/74.

FREEDOM, CHOICE & WORK: If you choose freedom, you will have to work to get it. - Willis E. Stone, FREEDOM MAGAZINE, Spring 74.

FREEDOM, CHOICE, ACTION & LIFE: "… no way of life would be tolerable without freedom of individual choice and action. - Dean Smith, Conservatims, 204. - Do all the unfree people find life untolerable and commit suicide? Freedom is so important that one should be more careful in one's choice of words in describing it. - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM, CHOICE, BEST CHOICES: The instinct of mankind in the average is always towards the best and if wholly free to choose will always accept and prefer the best. - Nock, in: - Michael Wreszin, The Superfluous Anarchist Albert Jay Nock, Brown U.P., Providence, 1972, 62. - Subjectively best deals are not objectively best deals - except for the individuals who made the choices, if no force, fraud, ignorance or error is involved. What is objectively top quality is fully appreciated and acquired only by those who do appreciate the quality and are able and willing to pay the price of it. What is true about his remark is that people will often judge merely by price and appearances and go for the best bargain, if they bother to go bargain hunting at all. - When it comes to ideas and opinions they will not be attracted by the best but, rather, driven by their prejudices, errors an myths, to make, more often than not the wrong choices, at least as long as the salesmanship for sound ideas and opinions has been as flawed and incomplete as it was so far. - J.Z., 3.5.00.

FREEDOM, CHOICE, CONSCIENCE & DESTINY: Each man to be "free to follow the dictates of his conscience and to seek his own destiny."- Ridgway K. Foley Jr., THE FREEMAN, 11/73.

FREEDOM, CHOICE, CREATIVITY, FREEDOM OF ACTION, ALTERNATIVES: Freedom is the right to choose. The right to create for oneself the alternatives. - Deaver Brown, The Entrepreneur's Guide, N.Y., MacMillan, 1980, 173pp.

FREEDOM, CHOICE, FREE SOCIETY, PANARCHISM, TOO MUCH FREEDOM? For some people, like infants and the insane, as well as for some criminals, there can be too much liberty for them to be able to cope with it and for some there can never be too much. Others are already satisfied with a fraction of all liberties. Let all peaceful and productive people chose for themselves their own societies, communities, laws & responsibilities as well as ideological systems. And let no one impose his choice upon non-criminal and adult others. - J.Z., 28.4.95, 6.4.00.

FREEDOM, CHOICE, MASTERS: Freedom is not a choice but an (the? J.Z.) absence of a master. - Motto of RED & BLACK, No. 12. published by Jack Grancharoff, Summer 1984. Freedom to choose unfreedom for oneself is also a form of freedom - which only panarchism clearly advocates, together with all other rights and liberties - for those who want them for themselves. - J.Z. 6.4.00.

FREEDOM, CHOICE, MISTAKES, FOOLISHNESS: It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom to enjoy the rewards of good judgment and freedom to suffer the penalties of bad judgment. If this is not true, the word "freedom" has no meaning. - Admiral Ben Moreell, Log I, 24.

FREEDOM, CHOICE, ORDER, PANARCHY: Freedom means you must be free to speak your mind or to keep silent, to act or to remain passive, to associate or to remain alone, to obey or to disobey, to progress or to regress - within the limits of natural law. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, CHOICE, SUCCESS, HAPPINESS: But still, it cannot be doubted that freedom is the indispensable condition, without which even the pursuits most happily congenial to the individual nature, can never succeed in producing such fair and salutary influences. Whatever man is inclined to, without the free exercise of his own choice, or whatever only implies instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature, and is, indeed, effected by him, not so much with human agency, as with the mere exactness of mechanical routine. - Wilhelm von Humboldt, in Sprading, Liberty & the Great Libertarians, 106.

FREEDOM, CIVILIZATION, COLLECTIVISM & INDIVIDUALISM: Now the possibility of any higher degree of freedom presupposes a proportionate advancement in civilization, - a decreasing necessity of acting in large, compacted masses, - a richer variety of resources in the individual agents. - Wilhelm von Humboldt, in Sprading, Liberty & the Great Libertarians, 110.

FREEDOM, COERCION & GOVERNMENT: I am not free as long as I am forced to avoid government coercion. - Fritz Knese, TC135p47.

FREEDOM, COLD WAR, COMMUNISM, SOVIET UNION, TOTALITARIANISM, DEFENCE, LIBERATION, WAR AIMS: The western position in the cold war could therefore be very strong. All it would need to do so is to utter its cold-war aim which a clear ringing voice: freedom for all. In the singular, by the way. Roosevelt paid but poor service to the still free world by splitting Freedom into freedoms, and a poorer one still by attaching prepositions to his freedoms and distinguishing between freedom to and freedom from. What the liberal world should be quite clear about is that its civilization and culture rest on this one principle: freedom first. Just as the Soviet Union aims at making all the world communist, so we should aim at making all the world free - men as well as nations. We cannot expect to win the cold war while we fail to proclaim to the world as our cold war aim that which is the core of our civilization and culture. For while we so fail, our side will be bewildered and confused, divided and open to the infiltration of the more determined strategy and the more skilful tactics of communism. - Salvador de Madariaga, The Blowing Up of the Parthenon, 32. - This cold war may be over but there are more to come. They ought to be conducted right. - J.Z., 1.1.92. - Most freedom lovers set themselves too small targets and use too small means to attain them. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, COMMUNISM & PROGRESS: Freedom is the sole touchstone of social progress: A Communism that requires enslavement in order to gain freedom is like virtue predicated on crime. - D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought. - Also in his Treasury of Thought, 48.

FREEDOM, COMPETITION, PROGRESS: Freedom brings about competition, which in turn generates progress. - Ch. de Brouckere, Principes generaux d'economie politique, quoted by dePuydt in: Panarchy.

FREEDOM, CONFINED TO FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937. - It goes much beyond freedom of expression, namely to freedom to act responsibly and independently, alone or with like-minded people, under full exterritorial autonomy. Then people who will not listen to good ideas or read about them will soon be confronted with many successful experiments that demonstrate how particular liberties do work to the advantage of those who realized them among themselves. Then, step by step, even the most ignorant, prejudiced and dumb will tend to gradually, adopt all those liberties which obviously pay their practitioners or all those they are capable of applying. Even dumb people can see advantages in electric lights and can turn on a light switch and can have them installed. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, CONFORMITY & GROWTH; Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. - John F. Kennedy, quoted in ANALOG, Jan. 2000. - Voluntary conformity should be distinguished from enforced conformity. The conformity within an exterritorially autonomous community of volunteers, that one has chosen for oneself, should be distinguished from the conformity enforced or habitual in a territorial State. - J.Z., 18.4.00.

FREEDOM, CONSENT, IDEOLOGIES, INTENTIONAL COMMUNITIES, UTOPIAN COLONIES, PANARCHISM, OBJECTIONS, RELIGIOUS FREEDOM OR TOLERANCE: Freedom to do as we please, so long as we all agree with each other and remain in a state of harmony with the cosmos, is no freedom at all. It is little better than a religion in which faith in a deity has been replaced by faith in some supposed truths of the human spirit. It is a single-party system that is as superficially benign, yet as subtly authoritarian, as Disneyland. Gregory Benford, Reactionary Utopias, FAR FRONTIERS, Winter 85, p227. - Freedom means: I won't. It means I may make another choice. It also means that I may make mistakes. It does not exclude voluntary associations & voluntary communities in which all decisions are made by unanimous consent. Disneyland is not imposed upon anybody, except, to some extent, upon parents wanting to spoil their children. I may enter it, upon paying its price and if I did, which I have never done, I may freely leave it at any time. Do despotism grant such liberties? - Religions, to the extent that they have recognized and respected the faiths of others, or their lack of faith, by subscribing to religious liberty or tolerance, have actually set an enormous example for panarchism: volunteer communities that practise their own political, economic and social systems under full exterritorial autonomy. - Instead of being no freedom of all, this is the greatest degree of freedom which human beings, as they are, with all their flaws, can attain for themselves and can wish for themselves, as rational beings. Only in ignorance or upon prejudices would they reject this kind of freedom for themselves and for others. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM, CONSENT, REASON: He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason. - Benedict Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise, 1670, ch. 16. - Seldes. - One should also be free to live out or practise one's own errors, false ideas and stupidities - at the own expense and risk. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, CONSUMERS, CHOICE, COERCION, ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES & INDEPENDENCE: As a consumer, I choose freedom. But even if the coercive way had economic advantages, I would still choose freedom. There is much to be said for being one's own rather than somebody else's man. - Leonard E. Read, Then Truth Will Out, 73.

FREEDOM, CONTROL, RULE, LIBERATION, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, PANARCHISM: Controllers, control yourselves! Rulers, rule yourselves! Liberators, liberate yourselves! - J.Z., 30.5.74.

FREEDOM, COSTS, DECISIONS & CHOICE: Freedom isn't the ability to avoid cost or the ability to avoid the consequences of your actions. Freedom is the ability to decide which actions you will take. - Robert LeFevre, Lift Her Up Tenderly.

FREEDOM, COSTS, PRICE: Freedom is worth whatever it costs. - Arnold Glasow, READER'S DIGEST, 12/74. - If you give your life for your own liberty then your own liberty is lost as well. It makes only sense to speak of giving one's own life, by choice, for the liberties of others, while no one has the right to sacrifice the lives of some for the liberties of others. - And if one has to sacrifice one's fortune to purchase a few more liberties then one should also take into consideration the number of personal liberties one loses with the loss of one's fortune. - Dogmatism in the sphere of liberty is no more sensible than in other spheres. - Don't let mere words overcome your reasoning powers. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES: Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free. - Montesquieu. - Even now this old lesson has not completely sunk in - although many modern statistics confirm it. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, CREATIVITY, PRODUCTIVITY, PROSPERITY: Our near approach to the freedom ideal explains America's unprecedented outburst of productivity, thus prosperity. All productivity - no exception - stems from the releasing, freeing of creative energy. Coercive or dictatorial direction - "management"- diverts the course of productive efforts and eventually discourages further production. - L.E. Read, The Love of Liberty, 90. - The best management is no substitute for self-management for most people function best as self-controlling being. Just try to direct someone putting a pullover on or off, step by step, while prohibiting him from making any move at all on his own initiative. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, CRIME, EQUAL FREEDOM, COERCION: Freedom is for freedom lovers, not for coercers. - J.Z., 8.1.84.

FREEDOM, CURE, SOLUTION, ANSWER: Freedom will cure most things. - A.S. Neill. - Even cold and cancer cures will multiply if we achieve full freedom for cancer research and for the publishing of all of its findings. We could even expect the cure for aging to come much sooner as a result. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, CURE, SOLUTION, ANSWER: Let freedom be the cure. - Leonard E. Read, Let Freedom Reign, 134. - Even statism can mostly be cured - once freedom forces the statists to take all the risks and burdens of statism upon their own shoulders. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, CUSTOMS & ABSTRACT FREEDOM: "Let me recall the statement that freedom is what we become accustomed to - if we set aside any idea of freedom in the abstract. There is the rub. Some of us, afflicted with a passion for nonconformity, get ourselves an axiom of freedom - that is a condition of living based upon inherent and inalienable rights - and insist on measuring every social institution and convention palmed off on us by that yardstick. And, though we may be impotent as far as changing the current of events, we will not permit our axiom to be swamped by them. - Frank Chodorov, Fugitive Essays, 195.

FREEDOM, DEATH & DESTRUCTION: The suppression of any freedom means death and destruction, at least to some extent. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, DEATH, LIFE: Live free or die. - General John Stark, revolutionary war hero, quoted in PLAYBOY, July 76, page 50 or 56. - Give all who want it also the freedom to choose unfreedom for themselves and become poor, oppressed, sick and die early as a result. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, DECENTRALIZATION, PANARCHISM, INDIVIDUAL SECESSIONISM & VOLUNTARY COMMUNITIES: Freedom, as decentralized as possible, is the best option, including the freedom to choose a condition of voluntary slavery for oneself. - J.Z., 1990.

FREEDOM, DECISION, SELF-GOVERNMENT: He had come from a society which laid on each man the obligation to decide things for himself. - Poul Anderson, The Long Way Home, ASTOUNDING SF, Oct. 55.

FREEDOM, DEFENCE OF FREEDOM: In any case, all of us who think that there is no more vital job at present than that of defending freedom, which is one and indivisible, and for that reason quite inconceivable and impossible in the absence of economic freedom, owe a debt of gratitude to him for this book. - Gustavo R. Velasco, concluding his introduction to: Ballve, Essentials of Economics. - Defend Freedom! - J.Z., 14.11.76.

FREEDOM, DEFENCE OF: We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. - Edward R. Murrow. - Is there a single instance in all of history where freedom, all liberties, have been consistently defended at home and abroad? Freedom works - but it has never been fully tried. However, to the extent that it was tried it did achieve the limited successes that limited liberties can achieve. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, DEFENCE, PRESERVATION, DEFINITION, DISCOVEREY AND FIGHTING FOR - : "… in such a context freedom is not something to be 'defended' or 'preserved', but something to be defined, discovered and fought for."- SLS statement, in LIBERTY, Sep./ Oct. 78.

FREEDOM, DEMANDS, MARCHES, DEMONSTRATIONS, PRESSURE: Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressors; it must be demanded by the oppressed. - Martin Luther King, Why We Can't Wait, 1964. - He was still under the delusion that other people are able to dispense liberties like tap water and that those who demand them from others cannot realize and protect them among themselves. - Moreover, he was not aware that his kind of non-violent resistance, while it could be successful in a country like the U.S.A., would have little chance for success, in most cases, under a totalitarian regime. Furthermore, there were instances when oppressors formally granted liberties, even free of charge. Instances: the liberation of the serfs by the Czarist Regime and the Stein Hardenberg Reforms in Prussia. - Some liberties had to be purchased in the past. Usually that was cheaper than fighting for them. - With the purchase of enterprises and land, using their own debt certificates, self-managed firms could be relatively easily established and without causing the backlash to be expected from nationalizations, occupations, sabotage and assassinations. Such purchases could have prevented terrorism and civil war in many cases. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY & DUE PROCESS, LEGALITY, VOTING, FREE ELECTIONS: If democracy can substantially diminish human freedom, it is only casually interesting that that diminution of freedom was effected by political due process. … in a given situation one might be faced with freedom and democracy as mutually exclusive alternatives. - William F. Buckley, Jr., The Governor Listeth, Putnams, 1975-78, 27. - Territorial and majoritarian democracy is inherently opposed to individual liberties and rights by its institution and by its practice. - J.Z., 29.4.00.

FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY & STATISM: The greatest enemies of democracy, the most violent reactionaries, are those who have lost faith in the capacity of a free people to manage their own affairs and wish to set up the government as a political and social guardian, running their business and making their decisions for them. This is statism, or Stalinism, no matter who advocates it, and it's plain treason to freedom. - Maxwell Anderson.

FREEDOM, DEPRAVITY & DICTATORSHIP: If men are depraved they are not good enough for dictatorship and freedom is all they deserve. - Kim Dvorak, in talk on conservatism, 3 July 80, free after Ayn Rand.

FREEDOM, DESPERATION, MIRACLE & ORGANIZATION: Freedom in every historical instance has been brought on by desperation; there simply wasn't anything else to try. And then followed the miracle which was attributed far more or organization than to freedom. - Leonard E. Read, Let Freedom Reign, 12.

FREEDOM, DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITIES: Figgis asserted that freedom is good because it enables people to develop their personalities to the fullest extent. "The theory of liberty", he wrote, "is always concerned at bottom with human character." - David N. Nicholls, The Pluralist State, p. 17. - Aren't e.g. freedom of speech and association, as well as freedom of enterprise and free trade and monetary freedom largely independent of the characters involved, apart from the requirements that most dealings must be honest ones? - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONALITY: That freedom is necessary to the development of the human personality. - William F. Buckley, Jr., Rumbles Left & Right, 86.

FREEDOM, DIFFICULTIES, COMPLICATIONS, SUPPOSED IMPOSSIBILITIES: Especially when confronted with difficult or "impossible" problems, turn to freedom. - Leonard E. Read, Deeper Than You Think, 13. - And to all your already legal freedom opportunities, like complete, cheap, easy and permanent libertarian publishing on microfiche, floppy disks and CD-ROMs. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, DISCRETION, WILL: Freedom means the ability to act according to one's own will or discretion. - Kuno Fischer. - Yes, if one respects the same freedom in all others with whom one might come into contact or conflict. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, DIVERSITY & PEACE: Freedom to differ. - Warren, True Civilization, 118. - Supplemented under 412 by: Here we have the "umpire of peace", the "last appeal", and the "end of disturbing disputes". - Ibid, p. 143.

FREEDOM, DOING ONE'S OWN THING OR MINDING ONE'S OWN BUSINESS: Let every person do their own thing provided that they do not obstruct or prevent another person from doing their own thing. The old don't listen to the young, the young don't listen to the old & both are too ignorant or stubborn to mind their own business. - L. J. Bullen, 1970.

FREEDOM, DOING ONE'S OWN THING: Do your own thing, in your own time, wherever you please. - J.Z., n.d., 1972? - Well, if you are a nudist and are invited to a dress-up party, don't! When you are among nudists, it is another matter. When you are on the property of others and implied contracts are involved, you ought to be the gentleman you are expected to be. Politeness, even with its lies, does make life more bearable under trying circumstances. Uncalled-for rudeness doesn't. - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM, DREAMS: As long as we have the freedom to dream, we dream to have freedom. - Sponti Spezial, Eichborn Verlag. - As long as we have the freedom to dream and think we can develop the blueprints on how to get there, fast and with a minimum or risk, costs, destruction and bloodshed. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, DUTY & MINORITIES: Acton defines freedom as the opportunity for everyone to do whatever he considers to be his duty, protected against interference by the majority or the authority. The best sign for genuine freedom in a people is the safety of its minorities. - Roscher, Grundlagen, par. 88.

FREEDOM, DUTY, EGOISM, SELFISHNESS, SELF-REALIZATION etc.: "It is the duty of the free man to live for his own sake, and not for others. …" - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900.

FREEDOM, DUTY, RESPECT FOR THE RIGHTS OF OTHERS, TOLERANCE, EQUAL FREEDOM, SELF-CONTROL, NON-INTERVENTION: What I think is going to change the world is our long overdue acceptance of the true nature of freedom. First, you do what has to be done, and only then what you feel like doing. Ever since we evolved to consciousness we've been doing what we felt like doing and constantly losing our tempers when what we ought to have been doing, because it had to be done, interfered. - John Brunner, The Stone that Never Came Down, 202.

FREEDOM, EARNED & CONTROLS: 24. Freedom must be earned by each person for himself. 25. It follows that a free society will arise as a result of the forces of nature when human beings behave in harmony with nature and do not seek to impose their controls on others. - LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Fall 78. - That's putting it in an all too abstract form, like Christians with their "love command". In practice nothing else is required to achieve this objective than letting individuals secede from all institutions with compulsory membership and allowing them to associate in their own, under full exterritorial autonomy for their communities. Such guidelines are more concrete and much easier to understand, especially if one considers their extensive but under-reported tradition. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, EARNED: Freedom cannot be bestowed, it must be earned. - Jack Williamson, People Machines, 102.

FREEDOM, ECONOMIC FREEDOM & CAPITALISM: Economic freedom, in the American sense, is maximum freedom from government. Capitalism is fundamentally a system in which people as far as possible are free to mind their own business but not free to mind other people's businesses. - Harold M. Fleming.

FREEDOM, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, EFFICIENCY & PRODUCTIVITY: Only freedom allows people to produce in the best and most efficient manner possible. - Mike Stanton, FREE ENTERPRISE, 6/76.

FREEDOM, ECONOMIC FREEDOM: Economic freedom is the implicit right of any individual to own any kind or any amount of property and to unite voluntarily with others for purposes which relate to property in any particular. Impositions by any agency of force, regardless of the end in view, are essentially contrary to freedom. If one believes in freedom, one must believe in economic freedom - full latitude of choice in any and all economic areas, for each person. This can never be accomplished by any procedure, organized or otherwise, which uses violence (even the violence implicit in taxation) to take from one owner anything which is rightfully his. Nor can one support arguments which are offered within a voluntarist framework which would lead to controls of an extra-market character imposed at any point of market participation. - Support of freedom is essentially support of self-government in all particulars. Freedom is autarchy - self-rule. - Robert LeFevre, Rampart Journal, Winter 1965. - But each should remain free to restrict his own liberties as much as he likes, or leave them unused. - J.Z., 4.4.00.

FREEDOM, ECONOMIC FREEDOM: Freedom to produce, own and exchange. - J.Z., 2.2.90. - That is the essential meaning of the ancient saying "laissez faire, laissez passer!"

FREEDOM, ECONOMIC FREEDOM: When we assess economic and political verities, however, we find that these are not rooted in tradition; indeed, they're brand new. Free market, private ownership, limited government concepts and the knowledge pertaining to specialization, freedom in transactions, the subjective theory of value, and competition and free pricing as a means of allocating scarce resources have come into a minimal appreciation only during the last six or seven generations. For these concepts and ideas to simply survive, let alone grow and thrive, in the face of traditional authoritarianism requires thoughtful and patient nursing. - Leonard E. Read, Let Freedom Reign, 96.

FREEDOM, ECONOMIC MEANS VS. POLITICAL MEANS: Freedom can only be secured by economic means. - J.Z., n.d., rewording: "And freedom can only be secured by political means." - Ron Manners, in bookshop notes. - However, the political means of individual secessionism and exterritorial autonomy for volunteer communities can be a key to all other liberties. - J.Z., 8.5.00.

FREEDOM, ECONOMIC SECURITY, GOVERNMENT INTERVENTIONISM: If our economic system is not based on freedom, if we are restrained in our economic activities to what government directs or permits us to do, then we are not free. - Earl Zarbin, F. 6/73. (THE FREEMAN?) - And, at least in the long run, not even secure. - J.Z., 11/73.

FREEDOM, ENDS & MEANS, SELF-CONTROL: 20. Freedom is both an end and a means. The end sought is the self-control freedom is. Once it is attained, it is the fundamental means to the attainment of all else. - Robert LeFevre, LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Fall 78. - Part freedom is also a means to achieve full freedom. - J.Z., 27.1.78. At least for all who desire it for themselves. I do not care about the others. Let them fry in their self-made hells. But deprive them of all hellish "weapons". - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, ENDS & MEANS: "The only freedom which deserves the name", Mill thinks, "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"; for, "in proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in units there is more in the mass which is composed of them."- Great Books, Syntopicon, p. 999.

FREEDOM, ENDS & MEANS: Freedom - the Only End. - Title of a book by F. McEachran, Johnson Publications Ltd., London. Reviewed by J. A. French in PROGRESS, Oct. 1966.

FREEDOM, ENDS & MEANS: Kant's conception of human society as a realm of ends, in which no free person should be degraded to the ignominy of being a means, expresses one aspect of political freedom. The other is found in his principle of the harmonization of individual wills which results in the freedom of each being consistent with the freedom of all. In institutional terms, republican government, founded on popular sovereignty and with a system of representation, is the political ideal precisely because it gives its citizens the dignity of free men and enables them to realize their freedom in self-government. - Great Books, Syntopicon, 997. - At least in his remarks on the value of considering utopias, rightful militias and human rights Kant went beyond this representative republican model. - J.Z., 4.4.00.

FREEDOM, ENDS & MEANS: Liberty is "not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end." - Lord Acton. - Not only political but also economic and social end. - J.Z.

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MEANS: The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means. - Robert F. Kennedy, The Pursuit of Justice, 1964. - Apparently, he had never read or learned to appreciate one of the more complete drafts of individual rights. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, ENDS & MEANS: The key that opens the door is not the end of the journey. - H.G. Wells, The World Set Free, 178. - Individual secessionism and exterritorial autonomy would have permitted H.G. Wells and his followers to realize other ideals for themselves. Then their kind of state socialism would have been harmless to all non-consenting victims. Their kinds of expensive and oppressive package deals would not have monopolized the whole population of State territories. Even ignorant and prejudiced individual consumers of his socialist utopias would soon have begun to look around for better bargains - and many better ones would have been ready and waiting for them. - PIOT, J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, ENDS OF MAN, REASON, DEVELOPMENT: The true end of man, or that which is prescribed by the eternal and immutable dictates of reason, and not suggested by vague and transient desires, is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers to a complete and consistent whole. Freedom is the first and indispensable condition which the possibility of such a development presupposes; but there is besides another essential - intimately connected with freedom, it is true - a variety of situations. - View ascribed to John Stuart Mill, by Noam Chomsky, in: For Reasons of State, 177.

FREEDOM, ENVIRONMENT, HABITAT: If we fail to understand the nature of freedom, this most vital, human, and precious possession, we may destroy its source - our habitat. - L.J. Peter, The Peter Plan, 45.

FREEDOM, ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL GROWTH, HUMAN NATURE, CONTROLS: The farmer works to improve the environment in accordance with the nature of plants and animals. He doesn't attempt to control them. History verifies that mankind flourishes with freedom and only with freedom. Yet politicians and bureaucrats spend all of their time attempting to control humans (an impossibility) instead of trying to improve the environment for mankind. (*) They still claim their only motive is to help. It's obvious they don't really know what they're doing and haven't identified man's nature or what benefits him. - Dale Green, LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Sum. 77. - (*) Misunderstanding ends and means, they try to "improve" upon what they wrongly perceive to be a free society, by the Welfare State, instead of liberating society from the chains imposed upon it by any territorial State. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM & FREEDOM OF CHOICE: Freedom must be balanced with freedom, and the greatest amount of freedom chosen. - Bliss, in Encyclopedia of Social Reform, under Liberty, on: F. J. Stephens, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM & FREEDOM OF CHOICE: - Freedom is a balancing act between individuals and their spheres of freedom. The simple rule involved is that no one has the right to claim more freedom or rights for himself, at the expense of others and that the others are not bound to recognize such claims. If they are rational enough to favour agreements rather than force, all will opt for equal freedom for all rather than more arbitrariness for some at the expense of the rights and liberties of others. - J.Z., 9.5.00, after re-reading the above. - Your turn now, to say it more concisely and clearly! - J.Z.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM, EQUAL RIGHTS: Freedom in the social sense can have only ONE meaning and clear borderlines: Either my freedom is smaller than that of another, then I am not free; or, otherwise, it is larger than that of another, then he will not be free. Thus in both cases there is no condition of freedom. Such a condition exists only under equal freedom FOR ALL, under conditions where the freedom of no individual or group is larger at the expense (and against the will) of another individual or another group, depriving them of something that he claims as an extra for himself. - K.H.Z. SOLNEMAN (K.H. ZUBE), Letter to Rudolf Augstein, translated by J.Z. - That was his basic "proof" for ethics as the only rational choice. He has expressed that in dozens of versions, which I have not yet put together. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM, THE LIBERTY OF OTHERS, NOT A LIMIT BUT AN EXTENTION: The liberty of others extends mine to infinity. - Graffito written during French student revolt, May 1968. - Alas, degrees of freedom of an individual and his respect for the freedom of others do not automatically establish links with other freedom lovers. Not even e-mail and the Internet & complete libertarian publishing on microfiche could do that, although they could be very useful tools for such an effort. Liberty requires more than mere chance contact and limited cooperations: namely some systematic efforts to link up all freedom lovers and what they have to offer to each other - and to the rest of mankind. - Only then can liberty be indefinitely spread and extended. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM: Every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man. - Herbert Spencer, Social Statics, First Principle. - Also in chapter VI, par. 1, with a "that" inserted between "provided" and "he".

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM: Freedom is never real merely as freedom of individuals. Each individual is free to the extent as the others are free. - Karl Jaspers, Rechenschaft und Ausblick, Moeglichkeiten eine neuen Humanismus, 2. Frage. - Otherwise you have one "free" voice among savages. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM: I am free only when all human beings around me - men and women alike - are equally free. The freedom of others, far from limiting or negating my liberty, is on the contrary its necessary condition and confirmation. - Michael Bakunin, The Knouto-German Empire, 1871. - What good is freedom to exchange for me if no one is around or reachable with whom to exchange? What good are freedom of speech or press when there are no listeners or readers around or easily enough reachable? - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM: If you really love freedom then you must also love that of your enemies! And you should especially offer it to their conscripts, taxpayers, refugees, deserters and other victims. - J.Z., 12.11.81, 11.4.00. - "The best way to defeat an enemy is to make a friend out of him!" Sign seen in front of a church, many years ago - from memory. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM: If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of freedom to all your neighbors. There is no other. - Carl Schurz, quoted in George Seldes, The Great Quotations. - We ought also to grant them the liberty to be as unfree as they want to be. Otherwise, they will tend to pull us down, too. - PIOT, J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM: Pray you use your freedom, / And, so far as you please, allow me mine, / To hear you only; not to be compelled / To take your moral potions. - Philip Massinger, The Duke of Milan, IV, 1623.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM: So, freedom for everybody and in everything, limited only by equal freedom for others; which does not mean - it is almost ridiculous to have to point this out - that we recognize and wish to respect the "freedom" to exploit, to oppress, to command, which is oppression and certainly not freedom. - Errico Malatesta, La Questione Sociale, Nov. 25, 1899. - Misunderstandings of what really constitutes "exploitation" can lead some to robberies and assassinations. That word does not belong into any freedom definition unless it is very carefully confined to a limited and true meaning: e.g. exploitation of others by a legal privilege or monopoly. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM: The condition of equal freedom, where a refined and maximized egoism has taught even the last one that his freedom grows or falls with the freedom of the others and that he will become independent to the same extent as he allows his neighbours to be independent from him. - John Henry Mackay, in Solneman: Bahnbrecher, 62.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM: The liberty which is good is not the liberty of one gained at the expense of others. … - L. T. Hobhouse, Liberalism, 1911, page 43.

FREEDOM, EQUAL FREEDOM: The second thing I propose to do about it is to be for an idea instead of against an idea. I propose to be for freedom - instead of merely against communism. And I define freedom as the right of any person to do as he pleases so long as he does not interfere with the equal right of any other person to do as he pleases. To me, freedom means absolute equality under the law for all persons, … - Admiral Ben Moreell, Log I, 62. - Persons under the law are under the law, not under or in freedom. - Have laws ever been able to assure freedom for all or were they even ever intended to do so? - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, EQUAL OR UNEQUAL FREEDOM FOR ALL? It is a great and dangerous error to suppose that all people are equally entitled to liberty. - John C. Calhoun, 1782-1850. - One should at least add: "peaceful" between "all people". - Not all gaol birds walking on two legs are "people" or sufficiently human. By one's behaviour one can deprive oneself of basic rights. - J.Z., 12.7.92. As Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) said: Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - Nor can one say that babes or infants, who do not even know the very meaning of rights, could freely and responsibly use them, no more than such people could use fire arms always responsibly. Unfortunately, even in our times all too many adults are almost as ethically immature as are babes and infants. Only custom and fear somewhat regulates their behaviour towards peaceful and responsible behaviour. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, EQUALITY & DEPENDENCY: Freedom, because each dependency of an individual deprives the community of a corresponding energy. Equality because freedom cannot exist without it. - Rousseau, in: The Social Contract. - Presumably, he meant only "equality of rights".

FREEDOM, EQUALITY & ENLIGHTENMENT: In this therefore universal education, because in it the lowest meets with the highest, we finally encounter the true equality of all, the equality of free persons: Only freedom is equality. - Mackay: Stirner, 107. - To Stirnerites the concept of "equal rights" is anathema. Free people can be very unequal and yet have equal freedom and equal rights. Within their equal rights and liberties they can freely express and practise their inequalities. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, EQUALITY & INEQUALITY: Freedom is essentially a condition of inequality, not equality. It recognizes as a fact of nature the structural differences inherent in man - in temperament, character and capacity - and it respects those differences. We are not alike and no law can make us so. parenthetically, what a stale and uninteresting world this would be if perfect equality prevailed. When you seek the taproot of reform movements you find an urgency to eradicate these innate differences and to make all men equal; in practice, this means the leveling-off of the more capable to the mediocrity of the mass. That is not freedom. - Frank Chodorov, Fugitive Essays, 397, Essay: Freedom Is Better.

FREEDOM, EQUALITY & INEQUALITY: Freedom means inequality. - That's why so many hate it! - J.Z.

FREEDOM, EQUALITY, GOVERNMENT, FORCE & POWER: As governments step up their attempts to defy nature and bring about equality, they find it necessary to employ force. And when force enters the picture, that means some men will come "under the control of power" of others. Exist freedom. - In other words, you may be surprised, after a little probing, to find that when people espouse freedom, often they are referring to their freedom, not yours. Worse, you may conclude that the gaining of their freedom necessitates the violation of yours. - Ringer, Dream, 37.

FREEDOM, EQUALITY, OPPORTUNITY: Equal liberty means that everybody will have equal opportunity in the quest for the things that bring happiness & that everybody will be protected in the enjoyment of those things once they have been secured. - Schwartz, What Is Mutualism? p. 46.

FREEDOM, ERROR, IGNORANCE, PREJUDICE: No one who lives in error is free. - Epictetus, Discourses, Bk. ii, ch. 1, sec. 24. - But there should also be freedom to believe in errors, prejudices and mistakes - to express them and to act on them, always at the own risk and expense. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, ERRORS, MISTAKES, PANARCHISM, FREEDOM TO BE UNFREE, UNHAPPINESS & HAPPINESS: The pursuit of unhappiness is an inalienable right of all humans. - Frank Herbert, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, Berkeley Books, 1981, 19.

FREEDOM, EVERYONE'S BUSINESS: If a person fails to overcome his own obstacles - frustrations, superstitions, imperfections, ignorance, no will to strive - that's his problem. But if the obstacles are put there by others - if the individual is compelled to live as others dictate - that is everyone's problem. Freedom is everyone's business! (*) Why is freedom everyone's business? It is because my freedom depends on yours and vice versa. There is but faint appreciation of the high degree of specialization in contemporary society, of how dependent each of us is on the others. - Leonard E. Read, Castles in the Air, 159. - Also in THE FREEMAN, 7/74. - (*) Also in: THE FREEMAN, 7/74. - The "dependency" upon others becomes almost complete personal independence - IF it is mediated by quite free exchanges. - 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, EXAMPLE, EXPERIMENT, DEMONSTRATION, FREEDOM OF ACTION: "… leave a well-marked trail that others may follow toward a worthwhile destination - Freedom."- George Ellis, THE FREEMAN, 11/74. - Under the voluntary and exterritorial autonomy of panarchism we would have consumer sovereignty towards an abundance of free society goods, services and organizations, offered all around us, in a super-market that covers the world. - We could merely do window-shopping and pondering our options or fill our "shopping carts" with whatever we liked and take it home. - PIOT, J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, EXCHANGE RATHER THAN FAVOURS AND THE DISPENSATION OF PRIVILEGES: The relations of men are open and free, but they are also loose. A free man in a free democracy derogates from his rank if he takes a favor for which he does not render an equivalent. - W.G. Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 34. - One must be careful in the definition here, otherwise bureaucrats and politicians might imagine that they have a right to sell favours. Others would consider this as an abuse of their power, as bribery and corruption. - J.Z., 14.4.00.

FREEDOM, EXCHANGE, EQUAL FREEDOM: Freedom begins with an exchange - you can't have it until you grant it. Your own liberty is measured by the extent you agree to grant it to others. Freedom exists to the degree exchange exists uninterrupted. It starts, proceeds and expands through exchange. All its blessings are derived from exchange. - Joan Marie Leonard, THE FREEMAN, 3/77.

FREEDOM, EXPENSIVE? Freedom is the most expensive pleasure. - Popular opinion. - Well, a slave has neither rights nor liberties nor worries about his own property. He lives completely at the expense of his master. However, he has to work a little for him. Is he free? - In dozens of ways freedom pays for itself. It can make those, who use it rationally, relatively rich. One simple reason for it is that it releases all creative energies, as Leonard E. Read says. - Another is that it includes monetary and financial freedom, means a world-wide free market and free trade and free enterprise within it. All oppressive regimes lead to poverty except for the top dogs. - J.Z. , 7.4.00, 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM, PANARCHISM: Freedom works. Only freedom does. But let everybody be free to find that out for himself - if he risks nothing but his own freedom in his experiments. - J.Z., 23.2.75.

FREEDOM, FACULTIES, UTILITARIANISM: Freedom is that faculty which enlarges the usefulness of all other factulties. - Kant, Lecture at Koenigsberg, 1775. - The same applies to the ability to pay. - J.Z., 15.12.94.

FREEDOM, FAILURE & MISTAKES: There can be no freedom without the freedom to fail. - Eric Hoffer, The Ordeal of Change, 1963.

FREEDOM, FAITH, RELIGION, KNOWLEDGE: Mackay showed that not faith in a religion can help men but only the knowledge of freedom, not the faith in it but the realization what freedom is. - MITTEILUNGEN DER MACKAY-GESELLSCHAFT, Nr. 5, Feb. 76. - I would add: and its use! - J.Z., 30.6.92.

FREEDOM, FALSE NOTIONS ON: "… they imagine themselves to be unfree when they are unable to harm themselves and others. - Goethe, Egmont, IV (Alba). - Harm and wrong should be distinguished. I harm a barber with whom I compete very much, but I do not wrong him or his customers by offering a better deal. - J.Z., 22.7.86. - I harm him by going to another barber for my hair cut - but I do not wrong him. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, FEAR OF - : Because Germans know that wild animals are free, they fear that freedom would turn them into wild animals. - Friedrich Hebbel, Diaries. - Until freedom is understood, they will often act like wild animals. - When the republic was declared in some factory halls in Germany, in 1918, there were cheers among the men: Now we can throw the women out of the factories! - Report by Ulrich von Beckerath. Compare also what the "liberated" negroes often did to each other in Africa and the "liberated" minorities and majorities in the Balkans and the Middle East. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, FEAR OF - : People fear freedom too much to allow it to work. - After Roche III, Bastiat, 15. - And freedom lovers have not even bothered to publish and keep cheaply in print all pro-freedom writings, although they could cheaply and without risk do so in on-demand publishing on affordable alternative media. In other words, they have not yet done sufficiently to dispel the fear of freedom or at least the fear of some liberties, not even among themselves. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM, FEAR OF FREEDOM: Generations of people wasting their lives away buying crutches because they'd been brainwashed into thinking they were cripples. - James P. Hogan, Code of the Life Maker, 85.

FREEDOM, FEAR OF FREEDOM: People fear liberty too much to give themselves this new beginning. - G.C. Roche III, Bastiat 15. - They do not fear liberty but their strawman substitute for liberty, in the same way as they do not fear the objective capitalism but the wrongful image on capitalism that they do have in their minds. - They fear the bogus liberty so much that collectively they will not allow it to work. But they would come to permit it to work even for themselves, once the few faithful or convinced advocates of liberty are set free to demonstrate its potential to them, in their free experiments, which they could then join or refuse to join as long as they liked. - J.Z., n.d. & 8.4.00, 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, FEAR OF FREEDOM: Sometimes I fear that if freedom really were granted to us, we might not know what to do with it or that we might use it wrongly, and that we are lacking in that "innermost" humility". From this point of view I could even understand why the victors should act not as liberators but as conquerors… - Hans Habe, Off Limits, 23. - During both WW I & WW II all sides knew all too little about liberty. That's why these conflicts were so long and bloody - and happened in the first place. - J.Z., 14.4.00.

FREEDOM, FIFTH, ERRORS, MISTAKES, EXPERIMENTS, YOUR OWN WAY: I'm a firm believer in the 5^th freedom - the freedom to go to hell in your own way. - A. Bertram Chandler, Spartan Planet, 372. - " … the most sacred freedom of mankind. Which is? Freedom to go to hell in your own way. - A. Bertram Chandler, Gateway to Never, 194. (Too many writers make use of only all too few freedom ideas. - J.Z., 6.4.00.) - The wrong ideas used all too often in SF ought to be collected and refuted in a handbook for future SF writers and readers. And the best ideas in all SF ought to be collected as well, with references to their origins and their best defences. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, FIGHTING FOR, VALUES: Freedom is the only thing worth fighting for. - J.Z., 76.

FREEDOM, FIGHTING FOR: That freedom, like everything else, does not last forever is the reason we must fight for it, not a reason to stop fighting for it. - T.V. Wolansky, Thiells, N.Y., REASON, 12/73. - Our cars and our lives don't last forever, either, at least in their present models. But that does not mean that we have to fight for them. A good maintenance program might serve much better. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, FIGHTING, PURCHASE OR PROFITS? Should freedom be conquered or bought or could it be made to pay for itself, with some ingenuity and labours? - See for instance the finance plan in PP 19C, the proposal of an Ideas Archive in PP 183 and the suggestions for the liberation war methods of a rightful militia. Compare also all the proposals on voluntary taxation and monetary freedom. - J.Z., 22.3.88, 8. 4.00.

FREEDOM, FIOT & PIOT: Freedom In Our Time. - Panarchy In Our Time.

FREEDOM, FORCE & AUTHORITY: I think of a freedom which, far from finding itself checked by the freedom of others, is, on the contrary, confirmed and extended by the freedom of all. I think of freedom triumphing over brute force and the principle of authority. - Maurice Cranston, Political Dialogues, 125, view ascribed to Bakunin.

FREEDOM, FORCE & VOLUNTARISM: Can we abolish force by using it? Every step must be voluntary, accomplished by reason and persuasion. Every human being must free himself. Freedom cannot be thrust on him. - Robert Heinlein, Assignment in Eternity, vol. II, 93. - Rightful resistance includes the right to use force, if necessary. One cannot always persuade an aggressor give up his weapon and surrender. - By all means, attempt persuasion and nonviolent resistance, as far and as long as they do work, fast enough, and towards whom they do work well and work fast enough, e.g. in a life-threatening emergency. But do not always bet your life that they will work for you. Rather risk the life of the aggressor. - J.Z., 11.4.00, 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, FOUR FREEDOMS, FREEDOM FROM WANT: "O Liberty - what crimes… " - In February, 1942, I wrote in this journal, on the "Four Freedoms" enumerated by President Roosevelt as America's aims in the war. I then wrote: "I earnestly hope that these four 'freedoms' will not become the popular slogan for our aims in the war. Freedom of speech: yes. Freedom of worship: yes. Freedom from want: no. And freedom from fear, as an unqualified statement is, I fear, just nonsense. - In a world that lives by exchange, no responsible man who wants to earn his own living, and who hates charity, wants his neighbour to keep him regardless of his own contribution. And no freedom-loving man but hates to be compelled to keep his neighbour when he looks on him as a waster. Any self-respecting man would give a bucketful of freedom from want for a cupful of freedom of exchange." - And now, in his recent discussion with Bertrand Russell on "Freedom", Lord Samuel carefully included "Freedom from want" among the necessary freedoms, and Lord Russell offered no objection. I can forgive Russell because he is a socialist (albeit of a most unusual colour); but I cannot excuse the Liberal Samuel. I put to Lord Samuel the plain question: "What will you do if numbers of men who are given incomes by the State sufficient to guard them against want, refuse to do any useful work, or are lazy?" - Only two courses are open: either the State must withdraw their dole, or it must use coercion. Either course makes nonsense of the plea for "Freedom from want." - Henry Meulen, THE INDIVIDUALIST, June 1951. ( ESSAYS ON LIBERTY, FEE, contains an article on this subject.)

FREEDOM, FOUR FREEDOMS: "… the four freedoms of President Roosevelt, … are not freedoms at all, but only rhetorical devices to persuade people to give up some of their true freedom." - Benjamin A. Rogge, The Case for Economic Freedom, FEE, The Freedom Philosophy, p. 19.

FREEDOM, FOUR FREEDOMS: Another form of the propaganda of hope was the appeal to idealism. This was the war to end war. Only win this one, and - never again. - In the last war we had a belief in a new world order that would emerge from the wreckage of war. Who can forget the tremendous impact of President Roosevelt's eloquent words in his Annual Message to Congress, January 1941? - "In the future days which we seek to make secure we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression, everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peace time life for its inhabitants - everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear - which, translated into world terms, means a world wide reduction of armaments to such a point, and in such a thorough fashion, that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbour - anywhere in the world." - These Four Freedoms became part of the inspired Atlantic Charter. Such was the shining hope for which men fought and died. It was worth untold armaments to the Allied cause. - W. Glanville Cook, Propaganda and War, in: Paths to Peace, edited by V.H. Wallace, Melbourne U.P, 1957, p. 203/4. - I see in the "Four Freedoms" merely a shamefully limited view and misunderstanding of freedom. To what extent could full recognition of all individual rights on the side of the Western Allies have shortened WW II, and reduced the number of its victims, on all sides? - Admittedly, the ideology of Roosevelt was not of as low a quality as that of the Hitler Regime, Stalin's Regime and that of the Japanese Empire. But Western civilization should have been able to produce something very much better. But, apparently, through its political process it couldn't. Moreover, R. was also a war criminal, even towards his own armed forces. See the way he contributed to bring about the attack upon Pearl Harbour and prevented counter-measures from being taken in time and then hushed up his involvement. - J.Z., 4.4.00.

FREEDOM, FOUR FREEDOMS: In the Atlantic Charter freedom of worship and freedom of speech were equated with freedom from want and freedom from fear. These freedoms are in entirely different categories. Freedom of worship and freedom of speech are natural rights springing from the nature of man. Freedom from want and freedom from fear pertain to the accidental conditions of our economic order and psychological milieu. - Our frontier fathers never looked for freedom from want and freedom from fear. They endured want and they overcame fear for the more basic freedoms to use their God-given talents to subdue hostile forces and establish peaceful living conditions. - The Very Reverend Edward B. Bunn, S.J., President of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., address at Loyola College, February 17, 1953, quoted in Bromfield: A New Pattern, 100/101.

FREEDOM, FOUR FREEDOMS: There is no such thing, four or forty. Freedom has no plural. Freedom either is or isn't. - A. J. Nock, quoted by Ruth Robinson, Memoirs of Albert Jay Nock, 1961, 199, in Francis J. Nock, Selected Letters of A. J. N.

FREEDOM, FREE BORN: Man was born free but is everywhere in chains. - J.J. Rousseau, at the beginning of his SOCIAL CONTRACT. - Otherwise expressed by Lason Glassop, in: We Were the Rats: "We were born free but nobody's free any more".

FREEDOM, FREE ENTERPRISE & IDEOLOGIES: Let's get the record straight here - it's unlikely that anyone else will. What we call the free enterprise system is not just another economic theory, an "ism" in the same breath as Marxism or socialism: it is freedom. Without economic freedom, without the freedom to save and spend, to accumulate and invest and inherit, without the freedom to mis-spend (for we need no-one to tell us whether we are spending our own money wisely or not), personal freedom disappears. - THE FREEMAN, Aug. 66, quoting a report from the Institute of Directors, London.

FREEDOM, FREE MEN, CONSCIOUSNESS & RESPONSIBILITY: True freedom consists in the continual active consciousness of the position and responsibilities of a Free Man, … - J. Toulmin Smith, Local Self-Government & Centralization, 8. - There is to be some freedom, too, to give in to one's emotions, to play, to amuse oneself, to relax, etc. One cannot always think and act only about and for liberty. - The question is, rather, how much time, labour and effort should one invest, at least, in the liberty struggle every week, until liberty is secured, at least for oneself and like-minded people? - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, FREE MEN, FREE WILL, ABILITY, REASON, STRENGTH: A free man is he that, in those things which by his strength and wit he is able to do, is not hindered to do what he has a will to. - Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, xxi, 1651.

FREEDOM, FREE SOCIETY, A NATURAL CONDITION & GOVERNMENT: Rose Wilder Lane, author of Discovery of Freedom, makes a profound observation in her great book. She points out that freedom is a natural condition. If one ponders that observation and glimpses its truth in its depth, he learns that men cannot create a free society. They will have a free society precisely at the time they stop preventing it. And the device that prevents it is government. Not government in the "wrong hands" but government in any hands. It is not the direction that government takes that is the enemy of freedom. Government by its nature is invariably an instrument of coercion and special privilege. (*) When those who employ that instrument become privileged and have power, they coerce those out of favor. The result is a continuation of a non-free society. And this holds true even if the privileged are libertarians. - LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Winter 75. - Although Robert LeFevre was one of the few who reprinted dePuydt's article on Panarchy, here he considers only territorial governments with compulsory members, instead of governments that are only exterritorially autonomous and have only voluntary members. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, FREE SPEECH & FREEDOM OF ACTION: But for actions, their result may be irreparable, and so we choose - to support beneficial acts, to oppose harmful ones. (*) - Remember, there are other values in the world besides free speech; indeed, the social utility of free speech is to give us a full opportunity to choose among those other values. (Note by J.Z.: Only if we happen to belong to a majority, and provided at least majority voting has been achieved!) In speech absolute toleration is a social good. In action, the existence of values other than free speech demands we choose right over wrong (J.Z.: Nay, we may choose wrong - but only at our own expense and risk!) and respond accordingly. Free speech gives the citizenry the informational base from which they can then make social choices in action. (J.Z.: Only full blown panarchism would give them that choice!) To limit free speech is to distort our capacity to make such choices. To refrain from making choices is to say that beyond the issue of free speech we have no substantive values which we will express in action. If we do not discriminate in the actions we support or oppose, how can we rectify the injustices of the present world? - Howard Zinn, Disobedience & Democracy, Essay: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order, p. 15. - Such utterances are typical for most of our present academics of political science. They indicate that we need a new science of politics, one that considers the voluntaristic and exterritorial autonomy alternatives as well. - (*) here, he, too, did not consider the option of freedom of action under full exterritorial autonomy, among volunteers only in their own free experiments or exterritorially autonomous communities, acting only at their own expense and risk. Territorial "free" action of governments go largely at the expense and risk of dissenters. Look around you. Exterritorial autonomy for volunteers works everywhere, so harmoniously that we hardly notice it any longer. Only for political, economic and social systems it is outlawed - and the consequences of this outlawry in these important spheres are catastrophical. - PIOT, J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, FREE TRADE, VOLUNTARISM, PROPERTY, CHOICE, CONSENT, ABUNDANCE, PEACE, FREEDOM OF ACTION, RACISM FREE TRADE: Aspire to an awareness of how the free market works its wonders and why. Embrace that absolute principle: freedom in transactions. In a word, understand and be able to explain why free and unfettered exchange between individuals - local, national, and international - is the way to an increasing abundance for all and, further, the way to peace on earth and good will toward men! - Leonard E. Read, Love of Liberty, 125.

FREEDOM, FREE WILL & MONEY: Money is coined-out free will. - Dostojewsky, Memoiren aus einem Totenhaus, Reclam, S. 26. (Geld heisst so viel wie gepraegte Willensfreiheit.)

FREEDOM, FREE WILL, ARBITRARINESS, WHIM: Free is only he who can do whatever he likes to do. - Popular view. - According to this only while Robinson Crusoe was alone on his island, was he a free man. As soon as there are others, he can no longer act upon whims -towards them - without risking infringements of their rights and liberties. According to Kant right is the agreement of the arbitrary freedom of one with the arbitrary freedom of others according to a general law of freedom for all. That excludes the above definition. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, FREE WILL, REASON, THOUGHT: Free will is the essence of man and reason and thought are his tools. - Proverb.

FREEDOM, FREE WILL, RESPONSIBILITY, CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS: Keep watch over each of your actions and each of your words, in order that you may not hinder the freewill of any human being. - Rudolf Steiner.

FREEDOM, FREE-BORN & EQUALITY: All human beings are born free, that is not as property or slave of a person or corporation, not even of a State, and they can never become property or slave of a person or corporation. - From the human rights draft in PP 4.

FREEDOM, FREEDOM FROM FEAR: I would like this country to be … one in which the individuals who make it up can live a life which is free, and have no fear. - John Gray Gorton, quoted in THE AUSTRALIAN, 13.3.74. - A nationalistic and socialistic inclined liberal politician in Australia, who for a while was even prime minister. Apparently, it needs a lot of flaws to reach such a high position - a familiarity with popular prejudices and eloquence in expressing them. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION & PROGRESS: In an advancing society, any restriction on liberty reduces the number of things tried and so reduces the rate of progress. In such a society freedom of action is granted to the individual, not because it gives him greater satisfaction but because, if allowed to go his own way, he will on average serve the rest of us better than under any orders we know how to give. - H. B. Phillips.

FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION, ACTIONS, CONTROL, SELF-HELP, POLITICAL ACTIONS, PROTESTS, DEMONSTRATIONS, MARCHES, PARTIES: It's not likely that you'll ever gain your freedom by joining, marching, picketing, or complaining - because all those methods rely upon changing the attitudes of others. What I have in mind concerns the use of methods over which you have complete control. - Harry Browne, How I Gained Freedom In an Unfree World, 13. - Only freedom for individual secession and exterritorial and autonomous association would give you complete control of your "fate", as far as that is humanly possible, i.e., apart from accidents, health problems and natural catastrophes. - J.Z., 25.11.76, 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION, CONTROLS, CREATIVE ACTIVITIES: No control over any peaceful, creative activity. - Leonard E. Read, The Love of Liberty, 15.

FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION, PLANNING, TAXATION, PUBLIC DEBTS: No plan by which one man treads another man's freedom of action underfoot will do. Besides, Mr. Bramston, can you not see what lies before you in the near future: This unjustifiable power of taking money from others, even from those unborn, has led to such extravagance, such waste, and such heavy burdens that the people everywhere, improving upon the honest methods of the politicians, are beginning to ask the question, 'Granted that, as you teach us, our wishes are the law of right, why should we pay debt we have never incurred?' - Auberon Herbert, in Mack, Herbert, 112. - Freedom to repudiate debts one has not oneself incurred or contracted and money one has not issued oneself or contracted to accept! - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION: Freedom for everyone to think his own thought, to say his own say, and act his own act, without fear of imprisonment or murder by intolerant tyrants. - D.W. Brookhouse, in Bob James, Australian Anarchism, 18.

FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION: I see & I forget. I hear & I remember. I do & I understand. - Chinese Proverb.

FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF CHOICE, FREEDOM OF ACTION, SELF-DETERMINATION & ALTERNATIVES: Freedom is more than just a choice between alternatives; it is the right to determine the alternatives. - Glen A. Dahlquist.

FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: The greatest safety valve to alleviate discontent in any country is the right to expound ideas, advocate government reform and criticize public officials or governmental institutions. - Governmental W.P. Hunt, of Arizona. - A still better safety valve is freedom for autonomous action among communities of volunteers. Where would science and technology be without freedom to experiment? Governments and bureaucrats have developed a very thick skin against mere criticism. But allow their victims to secede and pay their contributions to their own community and ignore all the messes of their former rulers - then we will soon see considerable improvements occurring fast. - J.Z. 4.4.00.

FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, SELF-REALIZATION: We are free to go where we wish and to be what we are. - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, p. 77. - Immigration laws and hundred-thousands of other laws say otherwise. E.g. compulsory licensing for some trades. Just try to practise medicine without a licence, even if you are better than a 1000 licenced M.Ds. '- In Australia, if you were trained as a medical doctor or engineer in another country, you can't even freely practise your profession without compulsory re-qualification. "None so blind as he who will not see!" - There are also the private properties of others, which we may not freely enter or remain in, uninvited and if we are kleptomaniacs or worse, should we be free to practise such characteristics? - Should we take poetic or literary licence with the idea of liberty? - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, FULL FREEDOM, THE POWER OF FULL FREEDOM, CONSISTENT LIBERTARIAN ISM, THE SELF-REALIZATION POTENTIAL OF FULL LIBERTY, KNOWN AND APPLIED: Whilst freedom is true to itself, everything becomes subject to it. - Edmund Burke, speech at Bristol. - Not only tyranny is infectious. Liberty is strength but its full extent and strength is so far known to only a few. Most "freedom lovers" do not even want to bother to mobilize all of its strengths. - J.Z., 30.3. 99. - I suspect that complete liberty practised by some people somewhere for a minimum period will prove to be quite infective. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, FULL VISION OF FREEDOM IS RARE & NOT EASY TO ATTAIN: It is much easier to have only limited views of freedom and rights than rather large and expanding visions of them. Our conditions are the consequence of this fact. - J.Z., 23.11.93. - Complete libertarian publishing, a libertarian ideas archive, a libertarian encyclopaedia, a complete libertarian library service, complete libertarian bibliography, abstracts compilation and alphabetical index guide to all libertarian writings and complete, cheap and permanent libertarian publishing, at least in affordable media like microfiche, floppy disks and CD-ROMs, might change that situation. But, do enough libertarians work towards such resources and achievements, with such tools? Can they be bothered? - J.Z., 9.4.00.

FREEDOM, FULL, COMPLETE - : A rational man would want freedom of choice, of action and experimentation, not only regarding sex, fashion, hair styles, foods, art, religion, expression and on election day - but in all his economic, political and social activities. - J.Z., 10/72.

FREEDOM, FUNDAMENTAL: From all this can easily be deduced an appropriate definition of freedom as related to the social realm: no man-concocted restraints against the release of creative energy. Freedom, as thus defined, is all-important to man's highest goals, to his progress. Freedom is neither "narrow" nor "limited". Freedom is fundamental. - Leonard E. Read, Then Truth Will Out, 96.

FREEDOM, FUTURISM: Let's create a predictable future of increasing instead of decreasing liberty. - J.Z. 10/74. - Our technical resources for this job were never greater and yet, perhaps never before, has a smaller percentage of the available resources been used for this job. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, GENERAL RULES & LAWS: It should also be remembered that, so far as men's actions toward other persons are concerned, freedom can never mean more than that they are restricted only by general rules. Since there is no kind of action that may not interfere with another person's protected sphere, neither speech, not the press, nor the exercise of religion can be completely free. In all these fields (and, as we shall see later, in that of contract) freedom does mean and can mean only that what we may do is not dependent on the approval of any person or authority and is limited only by the same abstract rules that apply equally to all. - But if it is the law that makes us free, this is true only of the law in this sense of abstract general rule, or of what is called 'the law in the material meaning', which differs from law in the merely formal sense by the character of the rules and not by their origin. The 'law' that is a specific command, an order that is called a 'law' merely because it emanates from the legislative authority, is the chief instrument of oppression. The confusion of these two conceptions of law and the loss of the belief that laws can rule, that men in laying down and enforcing the laws in the former sense are not enforcing their will, are among the chief causes of the decline of liberty, to which legal theory has contributed as much as political doctrine. - F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, 155/56.

FREEDOM, GIVEN RATHER THAN TAKEN AWAY: Freedom, alas, is more often given away than taken away. - Allan C. Brownfeld, THE FREEMAN, 9/75. - Instead of complaining about this, we should work towards panarchistically institutionalizing the option of giving away one's own freedom, as long as one can stand it, by seceding and joining a no-freedom or little-freedom society of one's own choice. Naturally, the other side of the coin is to let all freedom lovers secede as well and join free societies of their choice. In this case one has neither to win an election nor a revolution in order to get what one wants for oneself. Alas, to my knowledge, THE FREEMAN has never clearly advocated this option, since it remains addicted to limited governments, still unlimited in their territorial form, with an exclusive monopoly for that territory and all its inhabitants. It took this stand in spite of its comprehensive attack on all other monopolies and forms of compulsion. With some the love of freedom goes a long way but not all the way. - J.Z., 14.4.00.

FREEDOM, GIVEN? If a man gives you freedom it is not freedom. It must come from you. - Heard in a film. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, GOALS, INDIVIDUAL & SOCIAL: The most drastic deprivation which any person can suffer is that of the freedom to utilize and enjoy the faculties which nature has given him and which his will and desire have developed. Keep a man from exercising his mind, his body, his faculties, in the pursuit of his own wishes and delights, keep him from enjoying the fruits of his efforts - and you have done everything evil to him that you can. The greatest desire of each person, in short, is to be free to get the most he can get out of life. There is no other way objectively to define social goals than to call them the sum of those individual goals which can be harmonized in society. - Sylvester Petro, The Labor Policy of the Free Society, quoted in THE FREEMAN, 11/72.

FREEDOM, GOOD, DREAM, UTOPIA, FREDOM OF ACTION: The good of mankind is a dream if it is not to be secured by preserving for all men the possible maximum of liberty of action and of freedom of thought. - John M. Robertson.

FREEDOM, GOVERNMENT & INDIVIDUALS: Americans…. have taken the position that government exists for freedom, and that freedom means individual freedom vis-à-vis government. - Reichert, Partisans of Freedom, 3, quoting: Saul K. Padover, The Genius of America: Men whose ideas shaped civilization, N.Y., 1960, p. 14. - To be fully free individuals must be free to secede and to associate under exterritorial autonomy. In other words, only governments that are only exterritorially autonomous and that have only voluntary members can harmonize with the full range of liberties. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, GOVERNMENT & PROGRESS: The thought of how far the human race would have advanced without government simply staggers the imagination. - Doug Casey, 1979.

FREEDOM, GOVERNMENT & RESTRICTIONS: People need rather freedom, not politicians, bureaucrats, governments, laws & regulations to achieve their rightful objectives. - J.Z., 30.7.98, 6.4.00.

FREEDOM, GOVERNMENT & SECURITY: No one's life, liberty, and property are safe while a government exists to protect them. - Simon Jester Sticker.

FREEDOM, GOVERNMENT, ABDICATION: Freedom cannot be introduced by governments - except by abdication. - J.Z., n.d. - Governments can offer freedom only by repeals & abdication. - J.Z., 31.7.78.

FREEDOM, GOVERNMENT, EFFICIENCY: Many people think things would be better if the government were only more efficient. Happily, it isn't. For collectively, we are free to the extent that the government is inefficient and unable to carry out its coercive programs. And individually, you are free to the extent that you take advantage of the government's inefficiency. - Harry Browne, How I found freedom…, 100. - Someone commented on this king of opinion: Thank God that we don't get all the government we pay for!"

FREEDOM, GOVERNMENT, INTERFERENCE & GOOD MEN: All good men deserve liberty and the rule of their own lives without interference from government. - Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron, 77.

FREEDOM, GRASP IT, BE READY FOR IT, DECIDE FOR IT: "To be free, you have only to make the decision to be free. Freedom is waiting for you - anytime you're ready for it. Harry Brown, How I Found Freedom… 169. - That applies only to the few liberties that are either not outlawed or not efficiently suppressed. For some liberties one could take small to large risks. I wish someone would attempt a complete list of them, for each country, and accompany it with a list of those liberties that are outlawed and also efficiently suppressed. Only when such lists are sufficiently surveying our remaining liberties can we clearly see to what extent Brown was right with this remark. - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM, HABIT & STRUCTURE: Freedom is not just a matter of social structure; it is also a habit. (*) The concentration of power makes followers of us all. … - Howard J. Ehrlich, Anarchism and formal organization, 104 of: Reinventing Anarchy. - (*) Here I would add and close with: ", one that has to be acquired." - J.Z., 13.6.80.

FREEDOM, HAPPINESS & COURAGE: Happiness is freedom; freedom is courage. - Pericles, as quoted by Frank Dupuis, PROGRESS, 11/75. For the sake of completeness he should logically have added: Courage is happiness or: Happiness is courage. But how much definitional value or proof lies in such assertions? Many unfree people & cowards seem happy enough. Many unhappy people are relatively free, many courageous people are rather unfree or make other people unfree. I would go no further than asserting that freedom can make people more happy and their courage can help them to become more free but neither will necessarily do so. - J.Z., 10.4.00.

FREEDOM, HAPPINESS & COURAGE: There is no happiness without liberty; and there is no liberty without courage. - Pericles.

FREEDOM, HAPPINESS & EQUAL FREEDOM, UNIVERSALITY PRINCIPLE, PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: Everyone may seek his own happiness in the way that seems good to himself, provided that he infringes not such freedom of others to strive after a similar end as is consistent with the freedom of all according to a possible general law. - Kant.

FREEDOM, HARM & RIGHTS: Freedom is the authority of every man to do whatever does no harm to the rights of others. - French Constitution of 24.5.1973, art. 6.

FREEDOM, HARM & SINS: "I am free to do what I will; yes, but not everything can be done without harm. I am free to do what I will, but some things disedify." - St. Paul, Corinthians, The Bible. Even 2,000 years later many people still insist on not doing harm rather than not doing wrong to others. If I am better than you in a race or in a business and I win the race rather than you and you lose some or all customers to me, then I do you harm, by preventing you from being the winner and the vote of your customers goes against you - but neither I nor your customers would do you wrong. Must another 2,000 years pass before that kind of mistake is finally omitted? - J.Z., 4.4.89 & 7.4.00.

FREEDOM, HISTORY & CONSCIOUSNESS OF FREEDOM: The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophy of History. - Seldes. - And yet no historian or group of historians has as yet managed to write a complete history of freedom and of the consciousness of it! - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM, HONESTY, CREATIVITY, INITIATIVE, LAWS & STATISM: Not a single dictocratic formula - by governments, labor unions, or whatever - standing against the release of creative energy. Millions of sources of initiative and creativity replacing know-it-all edicts! Complete freedom in all honest transactions! This is the alternative to all-out statism; there is no other. - Leonard E. Read, Castles in the Air, 43.

FREEDOM, HOSTILITY & INDIFFERENCE: "… in a world divided for the most part between those who are hostile to freedom, and those who are indifferent to it. - William F. Buckley Jr., Execution Eve, Berkeley Publishing, 1972-75, 480. - Let them separate themselves from each other, constitutionally, legally, juridically, but not territorially. Let each have the own ideals autonomously realized in exterritorial models of volunteer communities. Then each can do his own things undisturbed, without having to gain or retain power over dissenters. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, HUMAN FREEDOM: What happens when one man's freedom interferes with the freedom of another man? If freedom is to be subjectively defined by each individual, it is reduced to a meaningless abstract. As we shall see, the only way freedom can be rationally viewed is in its pure, non-compromise form: human freedom. - If we think in terms of human freedom, we must think in terms of all men being free. Quite logically, freedom then becomes an across-the-board matter. It means freedom for the "poor", the "rich", the "handicapped", the "oppressed", the "weak", the "strong". It means freedom for everyone. - Ringer, Restoring the American Dream, 37.

FREEDOM, HUMAN NATURE, HUMAN ENERGY, SELF-CONTROL: This is the nature of human energy; individuals generate it, and control it. Each person is self-controlling, and therefore responsible for his acts. Every human being, by his nature, is free. - Rose Wilder Lane, The Discovery of Freedom, XI.

FREEDOM, HUMAN POTENTIAL, MAN: I believe in you - or your freedom potential, even if you do not. - J.Z., 15.3.87, 17.4.00.

FREEDOM, HUMANITY, RESPECT, RECOGNITION: I am free only in so far as I recognize the humanity and respect the liberty of all the men surrounding me. - M.A. Bakunin, Die et l'état, 1871. - Even if they choose for themselves quite different principles and institutions to live under. - J.Z., 12.7.86.

FREEDOM, HUMANIZATION & BARBARISM: We become fully humanized only under freedom. Power keeps us in barbarism. - J.Z., 25.9.88.

FREEDOM, IGNORANCE & CIVILIZATION: If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. - Thomas Jefferson.

FREEDOM, IGNORANCE & TRUST IN FREEDOM, CONSUMER SOVEREIGNTY, DIVISION OF LABOUR, PRICING & PANARCHISM : How can one persuade people who distrust it to come to trust in freedom? How could I give you confidence that you, too, could live as a free person in every respect - if only your are not aggressive or dishonest? Perhaps the best approach is to admit my own ignorance and that of most people on most of the complicated activities of a modern civilization. Instead of further discouraging us, this ignorance should encourage us. For under the system of division of labour it is not required that everybody become a "know-in-all". What is required is only that you remain free to pick and choose your job, your goods and services, your supplier or cooperator, your consultant or expert, all at fair, that is freely and voluntarily agreed upon market prices. This rule applies to all services, including all public services. All you really need is the ability to recognize a bargain when you see it, or freedom to be advised on it, and the freedom to accept it. Neither you nor I could run a post office or a railway. But both of us know that there are some people in this country who could run either of these services better than they are run now and also competitively. Good postal service is not impossible, it is merely outlawed. One has to stress that there are among us many people to run such services, not just one. It would be as wrong to give any of them an exclusive monopoly to run such a service as it would be to give a monopoly to any incompetent person. No, let us have, instead, free enterprise and free consumer choice in everything. - J.Z., n.d. & 10.4.00. - Well, not for the supply & use of ABC mass murder devices. But where would the customers for them be, how could they be safely constructed and maintained, when the territorial targets disappear & government financing and protection for them? - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, ILLS, ABUSES & RESTRICTIONS OR MONOPOLIES: We can prove that all the ills which you ascribe to liberty … do not originate in liberty, but in monopoly and restriction. - Gustave de Molinari, The Society of Tomorrow.

FREEDOM, ILLUSION THAT ONE IS ALREADY FREE: The illusion that one is already as free as one can be is, perhaps, the greatest obstacle to the achievement of full individual liberty. Another significant illusion is that all must achieve the same degree of freedom together, at the same time and in the same country. Panarchism would allow all individuals to approach full freedom step by step, as soon as they are ready for another. - J.Z., 26.4.95, 6.4.00.

FREEDOM, IMMORTALITY & THE STARS: Freedom, Immortality, the Stars. - J.Z. 23.4.77. - Read somewhere?

FREEDOM, IMPATIENCE FOR FREEDOM: I am impatient for freedom because I am not immortal. - J.Z. 3/73. - Even if I were, I would rather spend an eternity in freedom than in slavery. - And who likes to see his children and grandchildren grow up under all too limited liberties? - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, IMPORTANCE, SACREDNESS, GREATNESS: Mr. President, … it is my belief that nothing is more important than freedom! Nothing is more sacred than freedom! Nothing is greater than freedom! Nothing, - nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing … can be permitted to stand in the way of freedom! - Allen Drury, A Shade of Difference, 748. - Freedom means also letting others have, in their lives, at their risk and expense, what is more important, more sacred and greater than freedom. - If one wishes to impose freedom upon all those who do not desire it themselves, then and thereby one greatly reduces one's chances to attain freedom for oneself. Freedom is not to be used as a bulldozer over the preferences of others. Let them play their silly or trivial games, as long as one is not forced to participate in them. - J.Z., 10.4.00.

FREEDOM, IMPOSITION OF: "Can a robeing be freed who asks it not, for is it not a self-contradiction to speak of imposing freedom?"- James P. Hogan, The Code of the Lifemaker, 192.

FREEDOM, IMPULSES & ARBITRARINESS: Independence of arbitrariness from the impulses of our sensual urges. - Kant.

FREEDOM, INAUGURATION, WEAPONS & TYRANNY: Tyranny must ever depend upon the weapons of tyranny, but freedom can be inaugurated only by means of freedom. - Francis Tandy, Voluntary Socialism, Denver, 1896.

FREEDOM, INBORN: The inborn right is only one: Freedom (independence from the coercive arbitrariness of another) insofar as it can agree with the freedom of everybody else according to a general law, is this single, original right which every man thanks to his humanity can claim. - Kant, Metaphysik der Sitten, p. 43.

FREEDOM, INCARCERATION, TERRORIZATION, FEAR: To Helvetius, "the free man is a man who is not in irons, nor imprisoned, nor terrorized like a slave by fear of punishment." For E.F. Carritt, "a maximum interference with liberty would be imprisonment with manacles." - quoted in: Benjamin R. Barber, Superman & Common Man, 39.

FREEDOM, INCENTIVES, PRECIOUSNESS, EFFICIENCY: The essential ingredient is freedom to react to incentives & an understanding that individual liberty is not only precious but efficient. - D. R. Francis, THE FREEMAN, 10/75, 596.

FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE & INNATE EQUALITY OF RIGHTS: "Freedom", says Kant, "is independence of the compulsory will of another; and insofar as it can co-exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole, original, inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity. There is, indeed, an innate equality belonging to every man which consists in his right to be independent of being bound by others to anything more than that to which he may also reciprocally bind them. - Syntopicon, 997.

FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE VS. AUTHORITY: What that energy which is the life of genius, above everything demands and insists upon, is freedom; entire independence of all authority, prescription and routine - the fullest room to expand as it will. - Matthew Arnold, The Literary Influence of Academies, 1865. - The freedom struggle does also have its routines and all too many freedom fighters shied away from them and still do. We need more "clerks" for liberty - to produce all the necessary reference tools and publish all pro freedom writings and survey them and make them easily accessible in any significant segments. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE, INITIATIVE: The transcendental freedom is the independence of all empirical influence and also of nature altogether. It is the possibility to initiate a new condition right from the beginning. - Kant.

FREEDOM, INDEPENDENCE, PROGRESS & SECURITY: Independence, with freedom to explore new vistas, has been the essential condition of progress, whereas the surrender of freedom, in an attempt to attain security, has led to bondage, regression, and degeneracy. - Horace W. Stunkard, Freedom, Bondage, and the Welfare State, SCIENCE, 121, June 10, 1955. PRAJ 28856.

FREEDOM, INDIFFERENCE TOWARDS THE FREEDOM OF OTHERS: Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clear-cut preference for those societies which share with us an abiding respect for individual rights. - Jimmy Carter, inaugural speech, Jan. 20, 1977. - If only that had been true for him! Carter was certainly not for e.g. unilateral free trade and free migration, far less for full monetary freedom. - All unfree people, anywhere, are our potential friends and allies. Freedom knows no State frontiers. Frontiers are restrictions upon liberty. Our concern for liberty should not be limited by them. We have friends and enemies everywhere. - J.Z., 21.4.89, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, INDIFFERENCE, APATHY, BEER, ALCOHOL, ALE, DRINKS, TALK: A few men talked of freedom, while England talked of ale. - G.K. Chesterton, 1874-1936. - A. Andrews, Quotations, 151.

FREEDOM, INDIFFERENCE, APATHY, WORRY: What gets me more and more worried is that most people worry less and less about the loss of more and more of their freedom. - J.Z., 14.6.77, revised: 20.11.78.

FREEDOM, INDISPENSABLE FOR HUMAN LIFE & A STATE OF MIND: What is, anyway, this thing called freedom which we in the West take so much for granted? It is not easy to define but one thing is certain, freedom is as indispensable to the life and fulfillment of the human spirit as is air to the human body. Denied freedom, the human spirit is stifled and in danger of suffocation. The old English definition of freedom as 'the power of self-determination' has the merit of treating freedom not merely as a condition of life (in which regrettably only a minority of the human race are privileged to live) but also as a state of mind for which each individual is wholly responsible. This was the point made by Vladimir Bukovsky, a leading figure in the Soviet Human Rights Movement who, on being sentenced by a Soviet judge on a trumped-up charge, proudly declared, 'Do with me what you will - my freedom is inside of me.' - Winston S. Churchill, M.P, in: Freedom and National Security, page 103 of: In Defence of Freedom, ed. by K.W. Watkins.

FREEDOM, INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM: We must return to the broad highway of individual freedom where we, too, can pledge "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor" to the purpose which inspired our Founding Fathers. - Admiral Ben Moreell, The Admiral's Log II, page 111.

FREEDOM, INDIVIDUAL VS. COLLECTIVE FREEDOM: Freedom is not a matter for a particular race, class or nation but the fundamental requirement of each individual human who is convinced of the necessity for freedom. - LERNZIEL ANARCHIE, No. 3.

FREEDOM, INDIVIDUALISM & COLLECTIVISM: "…the conception of man as an individual who becomes whole & even 'god-like' by deliberate dissociation from the collective psyche. - Herbert Read, My Anarchism. - Not only from the collective psyche but also from collectivist communities! - J.Z., 3.4.00.

FREEDOM, INDIVIDUALISM, CAPITALISM: "… freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered. - Ayn Rand, PLAYBOY interview. - It would be more accurate to add: "by most people". And is capitalism the political or the economic expression of individualism and freedom? - She herself denied the political expression of capitalism in the form of "competing governments" or panarchies, which are volunteer communities that are exterritorially autonomous. She still favoured an exclusive territorial government - and refused to engage in sufficient discussion with her opponents on this and other remaining freedom controversies. - J.Z., 13.4.00. - I can understand this refusal on the individual level and upon demand by objectors and potential students. But one should make sure that whatever one has to contribute to this subject gets permanently recorded in at least one library and information service. - Books and periodicals are not the most permanent and suitable records or archives for new ideas. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, INDIVIDUALISM, EGOS & EGOISM: From the Hive Manual: Freedom represents a concept that is tied inextricably to the discredited abstract of individualism/ego. We sacrifice none of this freedom to gain our more efficient, reliable, and convenient basic human stock. - Frank Herbert, Hellstrom's Hive, A Bantam Book, 1974, 303. - I would reduce and change that to: Freedom represents a concept that is tied inextricably to the unpopular reality of individuals and their egos. - J.Z., 26.4.00.

FREEDOM, INDIVISIBLE & COMPROMISES: Freedom is indivisible and freedom compromised is freedom lost. - Carl A. Keyser, THE FREEMAN, 7/72. - Every contract contains some compromises - and no contract is eternally binding. Under freedom individuals can opt out of all contracts, even the implied ones with governments. - PIOT, J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM, INDIVISIBLE, ECONOMIC FREEDOM & CLASSICAL LIBERTIES, INTELLECTUALS, BUSINESSMEN & BUREAUCRACY: Freedom Indivisible; Depends on Enlightened Self-interest. - But economic freedom is not that important, it might be said. Liberties of the mind, on the other hand, or liberties of the spirit, they must be protected. The intellectual must be free, but it matters little whether the businessman is bureaucratized or not. As a matter of fact, freedom is all of a piece, and if we fail to resist government encroachment into any sector of life because we deem that sector unimportant to us, then we will enfeeble our capacity to resist where we deem resistance vital. - Edmund A. Opitz, THE FREEMAN, 100/75.

FREEDOM, INDIVISIBLE, VIOLATIONS: If one person's freedom is violated, everybody's freedom has been potentially violated since the precedent for violation has been set. - Mark Tier, Murphy's Rights - vs. Human Rights, in: The Shape of the Labour Regime, p. 218.

FREEDOM, INDIVISIBLE: "Freedom is indivisible"- like peace. - Solzhenitsyn, interview, March1976, by Michael Charlton, on BBC-TV programme PANORAMA. - Some freedom and peace are better than none, more are still better and all for all everywhere would be best. All forcefully upheld State borders prove how divisible the practice of freedoms is and how threatened peace remains. Rather some limited peace, with a few dozen minor wars in the world, than total world wars. Rather some limited dictatorships spread over the world than a single and world-wide one. Full freedom and peace will have to be gained step by step - by those who appreciate liberties, and rights and the degrees of peace they can establish. - PIOT, J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, INDIVISIBLE: A major problem is that each individual sees things from only his own point of view and does not appreciate enough the fact that freedom is indivisible. - "The media will fight if the freedom of the press is threatened; the law will fight for its independence; the businessman will fight for his right to exercise his initiative; the worker will struggle for his right to join or not to join a union; and so on, but few of them recognise that an attack on the liberty of any one of them is an attack on the liberty of all of them. - Once a determined government begins the process of eroding human rights and liberties - always with the very best possible intentions - it is very difficult for individuals or for individual groups to stand against it." (*) - E. G. West, in THE FREEMAN, 2/78, quoting Prince Philip. - (*) Here I would add: "especially when they are not free to secede."- J.Z.

FREEDOM, INDIVISIBLE: For freedom, in sound theory, is all of a piece. It hinges on properly limiting government. A society may be called free when its government does not dictate matters of religion and private conscience, does not censor reading material, curb speech, nor bar lawful assemblage. But mere paper guaranties of these important freedoms are worthless if there is governmental control and bureaucratic planning of economic life. The guaranty of religious freedom is worth little if the devotees are denied the economic means to build their temples, print their literature, and pay their spiritual guides… - Edmund A. Opitz, in introduction to Ben Moreell's The Admiral's Log II, XVI.

FREEDOM, INDIVISIBLE: Freedom, it has been said, is like a seamless cloth. Those who point this out have been most often inclined to argue that you cannot have freedom of speech, press, religion, and political activity without the corresponding freedoms entailed in private property, trade, enterprise, and managing your own affairs. The theory supporting this view is well established, and much historical evidence can be adduced which tends to prove it. But there is another aspect of this principle which is not usually noticed. It is that partial liberty tends to degenerate into license. - Clarence B. Carson, THE FREEMAN, 9/78, 548.

FREEDOM, INDIVISIBLE: The simplest fact is that freedom is indivisible. Freedom to work is useless without economic freedom and the freedom to strike. Freedom of expression is useless without freedom to publish. Freedom to demonstrate is useless without freedom to abolish rulers. Freedom of speech is useless without freedom to broadcast your ideas. Freedom to think is useless without freedom to act. - But because we have not or do not want all the freedom is no reason for not agitating for as many as we can get. Freedom is probably not an obtainable absolute but this should not prevent us working to bring it as near as possible, each of us in his own field, in cooperation with others, or ploughing his own lonely furrow. - Jack Robinson, in FREEDOM, 25.2.67. - It may be objectively indivisible, but for all to many individuals, subjectively, it is divisible. They are either satisfied with a fraction of their liberties only or remain dissatisfied in unawareness that absence of the liberties that they do not know or appreciate are the cause of most of their remaining troubles. - J.Z. 4.4.00.

FREEDOM, INDIVISIBLE: Yes and No! For those who want it need every part of it to really be and remain free. But this does not mean that those who do not want it could not put themselves under all sorts of contractual and penal penalties against its use by them, thus living themselves under the governments of their dreams without imposing them upon others. To that extent freedom is divisible - within a general framework for individual choice, in which many individuals would give primacy to some other of their values. - J.Z., 7.7.82 & 10.4.00.

FREEDOM, INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, CREATIVITY, FREDOM TO EXCHANGE, MARKETS: What was the main outcropping of the Industrial Revolution which brought in its train the greatest and most beneficial economic changes in the world's history? It was freedom, the freedom of anyone to be his creative self; the freedom to exchange with whomever he pleased; the freedom to seek his own gain so long as he did it peacefully. - Leonard E. Read, Castles in the Air, 114.

FREEDOM, INEXTINGUISHABLE: If the whole world were cemented over, somewhere a crack would appear & through that would grow the green grass of freedom. - Some Russian poet, according to Mrs. Judith James, 2/75.

FREEDOM, INNOVATION, INVENTION, CHANGE: Freedom, invention, change, all depend on the freedom of the individual to stand on his own feet. - THE FREE MAN'S ALMANACH, compiled by Leonard E. Read.

FREEDOM, INSPIRACTION, LIFE, REFORMS, PROGRESS: For in the final analysis, according to Rocker, "Only freedom can inspire men to great things and bring about intellectual and social transformation." For "Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. - Reichert, Partisans of Freedom, 482.

FREEDOM, INTELLIGENCE, DIGNITY & HAPPINESS: I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it as the unique condition under which intelligence, dignity and human happiness can develop and grow. … - Michael Bakunin, in writing on the Paris Commune.

FREEDOM, INTERCONNECTED LIBERTIES: Perhaps the oldest lesson of history is that an assault on one aspect of freedom is an attack on the whole. - Walter B. Wriston, THE FREEMAN, 9/75, 564.

FREEDOM, INTERESTS & SPORTS: If the freedom struggle could inspire the same enthusiasm and numbers as does e.g. a world championship fight or the clash of top soccer teams - then it could soon be won. - J.Z., 2.4.88, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, INTERESTS, HARMONY, PROGRESS: Freedom is the natural synchronization of interests in the movement we call simply progress. - Noan Marie Leonard, THE FREEMAN, 3/77. - I would have written rather: rightful interests or rights and interests. - J.Z., 11.4.00. - Noam?

FREEDOM, INTERRELATIONSHIP: All forms of freedom are interrelated. Together they all constitute a systematic and harmonious whole; there is not one of them that, when proved true, would not help to prove the truth of the others. - Bastiat, quoted in Roche III, 58.

FREEDOM, INTRODUCTION, GOVERNMENTS: Freedom cannot be introduced by governments. - J.Z., 6/72. - Contrary historical instances: The renunciation of feudalism by the French nobility during the French Revolution, the abolition of serfdom by the Czar, of slavery by the U.S.A., and the Stein-Hardenberg Reforms in Prussia. None of them introduced all of liberty but many liberties. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, INVENTIONS, CAPITAL, MACHINES: For what avail the plough or sail or land or life, if freedom fail? - Emerson.

FREEDOM, ISOLATIONISM, BARBARISM: From the viewpoint of the barbarian freedom is the same as isolation; the one is most free whose activity is least restricted through the activities of others. Thus the existence of only a single individual on the whole surface of the Earth would convey the idea of the greatest possible freedom. From the social point of view, freedom and solidarity are identical expressions, since the freedom of each does not find in the freedom of others its limit, as the Declaration of the Rights of Men and of Citizens of 1793 says, but its support. The freest man is the one who has the most relations to his fellow men. - Proudhon, Confessions of a Revolutionary of 1848, 15. - Translated from a German version. - Another version follows:

FREEDOM, SAVAGE & SOCIAL FREEDOM, CIVILIZATION: There are two kinds of freedom. For the savage freedom is the same as isolation. The one is most free whose activity is least infringed by the activities of others. Thus the existence of a single individual on earth would supply us with the idea of the greatest possible freedom. From a social point of view freedom and solidarity are identical. As the freedom of each does no longer find a limit in the freedom of another - as the Declaration of the Rights of Men and Citizens of 1793 says - but instead of this an assistance, thus the freest man is he who has the most numerous relations to his fellow human beings… The freedom of savages cannot reasonably and justly be claimed by people living in society. - P. J. Proudhon, Bekenntnisse eines Revolutionaers von 1848, p. 38.

FREEDOM, IT WORKS: Freedom works. Nothing else does. - J.Z., 24.4.76. - So why remain so many people blind to the solutions freedom has to offer? Freedom lovers have never offered all their solutions together, fully developed, with all the proofs, references and refutations. Now, with alternative media at their disposal, quite legally, they could and should - but haven't done it yet. - Why not? You tell me! - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, ITS INTRODUCTION: For how many more centuries are you prepared to postpone the introduction of peace, a just and free society, free trade, free banking, individual sovereignty, panarchism, longevity, space exploration, intelligence expansion, complete libertarian library and information services and to tolerate the prevailing ignorance and prejudices, mass murder practices and preparations, bloody wars, civil wars, revolutions and terrorist actions that serve no rightful and rational purposes, mass unemployment, inflation, tax robberies, bureaucracy, despotism, corruption, exploitation, monopolies & avalanches of oppressive laws and regulations? - J.Z. 22.11.93. - Shouldn't you at least search for programs that could achieve FIOT or PIOT? - J.Z., 9.4.00.

FREEDOM, ITS LIMIT: The freedom of each has as logical limit the freedom of the others. - Karr.

FREEDOM, IT'S MY LIFE: I'm the one that's got to die, when it's time for me to die - so let me live my life - the way I want to. - Jimi Hendrix.

FREEDOM, JOY, DIVERSIONS, ENTERTAINMENT, AMUSEMENTS: Without full freedom a rational being cannot fully enjoy himself. Then he can at best and only temporarily divert his attention. - J.Z., 10.6.98, 6.4.00.

FREEDOM, JUDGING OTHERS: Who, nowadays has the right to sit in judgment on his fellow man? Who has the right to deprive another of his freedom? - Solzhenitsyn, First Circle, 372. - The victim against the offender. - J.Z., 27.12.76. - All should be free to choose for themselves the constitutional, legal, policing, juridical and penal system of their individual preference. They would suffer under no other, unless they interfered with the same choices of others. Then, in a way, each offender would have chosen his own judge - or arbitrator. - A territorial government's judges are, indeed, so distant from our lives and thinking, our personal preferences and values, that we have often to question their authority over us and others. - But that does not devalue every system of jurisdiction, particularly not for their subscribers. - J.Z., 14.4.00.

FREEDOM, JUDGMENT, AGGRESSION: Freedom is a state of affairs in which a person is able to act on the basis of his own judgment. Freedom implies the absence or effective neutralization of aggression. - Symposium: Is Government Necessary, 411.

FREEDOM, JUSTICE & INJUSTICE: Either men must be free or society must be unjust. - Roche III, Bastiat, 58/59.

FREEDOM, JUSTICE & TRUTH, SOCIETY & NONINTERVENTIONISM: Nothing but Freedom, Justice, and Truth is of any permanent advantage to the mass of mankind. To these society, left to itself, is always tending. - Wendell Pillips, 1811-1884, in his speeches, published 1863, quoted in Sprading, 160.

FREEDOM, JUSTICE, CHILDREN & BARBARIANS & SELFISHNESS: "… in human conduct, self-interest is a high survival factor. Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them. - Murray Leinster, Med Service, in: anthology edited by Mary Kornbluth: Science Fiction Showcase, 1959, 154. - To realize that their self-interest requires the recognition of the equal freedom of others does require more reasoning powers than they possess. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, JUSTICE, MORALITY: Simply stated, freedom is desirable because it is just, moral and proper. - Ridgway K. Foley, Jr., THE FREEMAN, 4/73. - I desire e.g. freedom in my work, freedom of expression, information and association not only because they are just, moral and proper but because I like them and need them for my purposes. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, KANGEROOS & TAMPOONS. HOW FAR CAN & SHOULD FREEDOM GO? "With carefree tampoons I can do whatever I like." - TV adv. 25.9.92. - As if tampoons were the solution for anarchists of all sexes! Another advertisement, addressed to tourists, ran: "Here you can do anything you like - even feed the kangaroos." - Such remarks are addressed by the supposedly better "educated" to the less educated of our "enlightened" democracy. - J.Z., 25.9.92, 6.4.00.

FREEDOM, KNOWLEDGE OF - : How many had the chance to know what freedom was really like? - Louis Charbonneau, The Sentinel Stars, 44. - There are all too few instances of full liberties around us and nowhere has all the literature on liberty be put together and made accessible. - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM, KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING, LOVE OF LIBERTY: For a nation to love liberty, it is sufficient that she knows it. - Marquis de la Fayette, quoted in Rose Wilder Lane, The Discovery of Freedom, 217. - A nation cannot love, know or act - unless it is a voluntary one. Otherwise, only individuals can love, know and act. - J.Z., 14.4.00.

FREEDOM, KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING: The man who knows what freedom means will find a way to be free. - Motto of Freedom School, Colorado.

FREEDOM, KNOWLEDGE, UNDERSTANDING: You cannot say that you are free until you know all there is to know about freedom - or can get easy access to any part of that total knowledge. Otherwise, you are at best free only to some extent. - J.Z., 23.2.75, 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, LAST CHANCE: Freedom! "There is no second chance. Now is the time!" - Yao Kitabatake.

FREEDOM, LAW & APPETITE: According to the Continental theory of freedom, the "mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to the laws which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty." (Rousseau) - Dr. John O. Nelson. - There are many continental theories of freedom! - J.Z.

FREEDOM, LAW & CONSCIENCE: Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience. - Emerson.

FREEDOM, LAW & PERMISSION: Liberty is the freedom to do what the law permits. - Montesquieu, Spirit of the Law, book 2, chap. iii.

FREEDOM, LAW & RIGHTS: The opposite view does not regard freedom as freedom from law. "Freedom", Hegel maintains, "is nothing but the recognition and adoption of such universal substantial objects as Right and Law." All that matters in the relation between liberty and law is whether the law is just and whether a man is virtuous. If the law is just, then it does not compel a just man to do what he would not freely elect to do even if the law did not exist. Only the criminal is coerced or restrained by good laws. To say that such impediment to action destroys freedom would be to deny the distinction between liberty and license. - Syntopicon, p. 995.

FREEDOM, LAW & VIOLENCE: For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others, which cannot be where there is no law. - John Locke, Sec. Treaty of Civ. Govt., Sect. 57. - Did he ever consider "personal laws"? - J.Z.

FREEDOM, LAW, POLITICAL LIBERTY: The supremacy of law is frequently said to be the basic principle of political liberty. - Syntopicon, 996. - Yes, if personal laws, individually chosen, are included! - J.Z., 3.4.00.

FREEDOM, LAW, SOCIAL ORDER & POLITICAL POWER: Freedom has nothing to do with political power. Freedom makes concessions to the law, as a matter of necessity, but always with the reluctance of a child taking castor oil. The ideal of freedom is a social order without law, but since the nature of man is not prepared to live in so rarified an atmosphere, since he will on occasion covet his neighbor's property, which is a denial of freedom, it is necessary that the ideal be somewhat watered down with law. - Frank Chodorov, Fugitive Essays, 397, Essay: Freedom Is Better, pp 396/397.

FREEDOM, LAWLESSNESS, WHIM & DUTY: Lawlessness is not the route to liberty. Liberty in society depends upon the discovery and practice of those higher laws which produce it. For freedom is not mere whim; it is the opportunity to do as one ought - without compulsion. … True liberty is found only by doing what we ought because we want to and not because we have to. - Kenneth W. Sollitt, The Law of Liberty, THE FREEMAN, Nov. 66. - This definition overlooks the freedom to err and act foolishly - at one's own expense. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, LAWS & CONSENT: My external freedom allows me to obey no other external laws than those to which I could have given my consent. - Kant. Another version: Freedom is the authority to obey only those external laws to which one could have given one's consent. - Kant. - To this Kurt Lisser, in: Der Begriff des Rechts by Kant, S. 22, comments: Here, indeed, lies a difficulty. "Could" expresses that a certain standard is determined as criterion and not the accidental whim of an individual."

FREEDOM, LAWS, CONSTITUTIONS, JURICIDAL PRECEDENTS, TREATIES: Any treaty, constitution, law, regulation, court ruling or administrative ruling or order may be morally breached - but only in favor of more individual freedom and without breaching time-limited contract obligations. - J.Z., 29.10.92, 9.4.00.

FREEDOM, LEADERS AND OBEDIENCE, STATISM, COMMANDS: The path to freedom is blocked much more by those who wish to obey than by those who desire to command. - M. D. Petre.

FREEDOM, LEADERSHIP, FOLLOWERSHIP, NON-OBSTRUCTIONISM: Lead, follow or get out of the way. - Movie: Wind, 1992. - Compare: MYOB. Do your own thing and let others do theirs. Tolerance. Initiative.

FREEDOM, LEAVE OTHERS FREE: Leave others free to live their own lives. - Leonard E. Read, THE FREEMAN, 9/73.

FREEDOM, LEGALIZATION: Legalize freedom. - L.P. slogan, 1976, quoted in NEWSWEEK. - "Decriminalize freedom" might be better. - J.Z. 78.

FREEDOM, LIBERATION & SELF-CONTROL: If freedom implies being in control of one's own life, would any person has begun to experience the elation of his or her own liberation be inclined to suppress and restrain others? - Butler D. Shaffer, Calculated Chaos, 227.

FREEDOM, LIBERATION VS. PROSECUTION: Let us hang no one, and set everybody free. - Bastiat, Sophisms, 241. - Only those who want to be free: Leave all others the individual choice for their preferred dependencies. - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM, LIBERTY & SECURITY: People do no longer strive for liberty but for security. - Popular opinion. - Indeed, those who do not know the economic and political as well as military potential of liberty try to achieve their desired security directly, unaware that thereby their decrease their security in almost every respect. E.g., instead of trying to supply themselves with work, through establishing all the liberties to realize this right (mainly monetary and financial freedom, free trade, free migration, free contracts, free pricing for all goods and services, free enterprise), they demand employment to be provided by the State or a dole, instead. The State cannot make them fully employed - except as forced and underpaid or non-paid labourers (serfs or slaves). - J.Z.

FREEDOM, LICENSE & THE LAW OF NATURE: For Locke the state of nature is not a state of war, but a natural as opposed to a civil society, that is, a society in which men live together under natural rather than under civil law. Men who live in this condition are "in a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature." This is a limited, not an absolute freedom; or, as Locke says, "though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of license." The line between liberty and license is drawn by the precepts of the natural law. The difference, then, between natural and civil liberty lies in this. Natural liberty consists in being "free from any superior power on earth", or not being "under the will or legislative authority of man". Only the rules of natural law limit freedom of action. Civil liberty, or liberty under civil law, consists in being "under no other legislative power but that established by consent." It is a freedom for the individual to follow his own will in all matters not prescribed by the law of the state. - Syntopicon, p. 994, of THE GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD.

FREEDOM, LIFE & FAITH: Only faith in freedom makes life worth living. - Rudolf Rocker, Pioneers of American Freedom, . 48.

FREEDOM, LIFE & PROSPERITY: Freedom is the key to all these material things by which we live and prosper. - Leonard E. Read, The Love of Liberty, p. 27. - It is also the key to all the immaterial things by which we live and prosper! - J.Z. 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, LIFE & SELF-CONTROL: I understood at last that every human being is free; that I am endowed by the Creator with inalienable liberty as I am endowed with life; that my freedom is inseparable from my life, since freedom is the individual's self-controlling nature. My freedom is my control of my own life-energy, for the uses of which I, alone, am therefore responsible. - But in the exercise of this freedom is another thing, since in every use of my life-energy I encounter obstacles. Some of these obstacles, such as time, space, weather, are eternal in the human situation on this planet. Some are self-imposed and come from my own ignorance of realities. … - Rose Wilder Lane, Give Me Liberty, p. 17.

FREEDOM, LIFE & SELF-OWNERSHIP: It's my life, isn't it? - Popular saying.

FREEDOM, LIFE, ADVENTURE, DRABNESS: Life has been made so drab, so empty of important choices and decisions - that we all engage in a dream-world life, in escapism, diversions and entertainment, instead of restoring life to its natural freedom, challenges, risks, responsibilities and opportunities. - J.Z., 29.12.75, 10.4.00.

FREEDOM, LIMITS & POTENTIAL: By all means, know your limits - but don't underestimate your own potential as a free person - nor that of anyone else. - J.Z., 9.10.89.

FREEDOM, LIVE AS WE WISH: Is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else. - Ancient Greek saying. - Provided we leave all others the same right. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, LORDS & SLAVES: No lord above us, no slave below us. - Old Friesian proverb.

FREEDOM, LOVE & WORSHIP OF IT: I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. - Alexis de Toqueville, 1805-1859, quoted in: C. Bingham, Men & Affairs, 195.

FREEDOM, LOVE OF - : Love of freedom is an honourable love. - Merilyn Fairskye, quoted in SMH., March 13.1976. - Some years later, she fell in love with a Marxist and became quiet about freedom. Does this mean that one should have classed this love as a dishonourable one? What a fall! But it is a natural one against which most people have no inbuilt resistance. They say that a raised prick has no conscience and one might say that a roused woman has no ideology. Ayn Rand would probably not have agreed, because according to her dogmas, as I see them, one should have loved the values of a person first and most and then only the person behind them. - I, too, loved my wife most while we shared the values of liberty. Then biology intervened, 3 pregnancies and 3 children, the worries of daily family life, with interest in freedom very much in the background for her and mere love of "life" as it is, not a "free future life" becoming most important for her, while I was preoccupied with writing my first book, now in PEACE PLANS 61-63. That was one of the main reasons for our separation, at least on my side. Many years later, she told me once: How can one live with someone who thinks almost all the time? - That, naturally, was an exaggeration. At most I can say that I try to think frequently or more frequently than most other people about questions like liberty, peace, rights and ideas and facts related to them, or that "it thinks in me", particularly after I have drunk some coffee. - J.Z., 15.4.00.

FREEDOM, LOVE OF - : The problem that is set for our times is that of freeing man from the curse of economic exploitation and political and social enslavement. - Rudolf Rocker, as quoted by Noam Chomsky in his Notes on Anarchism.

FREEDOM, LOVE OF - : We cannot fully love liberty until we had at least a chance to see all of it in all its aspects. So far, none of us has seen more than a few pages of a comprehensive encyclopaedia, library or practice of liberty. Thus in our ignorance, we are all too often opposed to aspects of liberty. Instead, the many cases where freedom obviously works best should have given us the faith to believe that it would work best in the other instances as well. - J.Z., 14.4.90, 17.4.00.

FREEDOM, LOVE OF FREEDOM, POLITICIANS: If mankind really have an unquenchable love for freedom, I thought it strange that I saw so little evidence of it; and as a matter of fact, from that day to this, I have seen none worth noticing. One is bound to wonder why it is, since people usually set some value on what they love, that among those who are presumed to be so fond of freedom the possession of it is so little appreciated. Taking the great cardinal example lying nearest at hand, the American people once had their liberties; they had them all; but apparently they could not rest o'nights until they had turned them over to a prehensile crew of professional politicians. - Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Harper, 1943, 313/314. - A smaller example: Do enough libertarians love their microfilm, floppy disk and CD-ROM freedom of expression and information opportunities, and their own unpublished or out of print literature, to use these very affordable media to put all freedom writings fully, permanently and cheaply in print, at least in one of these alternative media - or is it rather true, that they can't be bothered to do so? - J.Z., 6.5.00.

FREEDOM, LOVE OF FREEDOM: Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have. - Billy Graham. - What about gaining all the rest? And many freedom lovers seem to be willing to do anything for freedom - except resorting to microfiche, floppy disks and CD-ROMs for the literature of freedom. - J.Z., 10.4.00.

FREEDOM, LOVE OF LIBERTY: The greater your love of your liberty - not to a distant ideal but to an essential part of your life, the more difficult it is, naturally, to live in an age, as our times, in which even the last liberty is threatened to disappear. - But your love of it will help you, again and again, over the greatest difficulties. - Whosoever does not hate the suppressors of liberty does not really love it. - John Henry Mackay, Abrechnung, 165.

FREEDOM, LOVE, FORCE & IMAGINATION: Freedom won't come through love, and it won't come through force. It will come through the imagination. - Wilson/Shea, Illuminatus I, 62/63.

FREEDOM, LOVE, KNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATION OF - : "… the idea struck me that a people which resolves to remain free can defy the whole universe - that, though a great number of us might perish, we should, at the last, prove victorious."- Erckmann-Chatrian, The Story of a Peasant, II, 111. - Freedom on a superficial and limited level, like national freedom, is not enough. Full knowledge or it and of all its freedom promoting options are required for love of liberty to become strong and efficient enough to defeat all the opponents of liberty or convert them to it. - J.Z., 27.7.92.

FREEDOM, LOVE, NECESSITY, FUTURE: Only one who loves freedom will understand her. Whosoever loves freedom - and there lies our future - loves it as a necessity for his life, will learn to understand it and pass through all errors. - Free translation of a passage by John Henry Mackay in Die Anarchisten.

FREEDOM, LUXURY, NECESSITY, POVERTY: To those who think that freedom is a rich man's luxury, my answer is that it is the poor man's necessity. - Lord Hailsham, with Mr. Whitlam, Sydney, 1974, SMH 13/5/78.

FREEDOM, MAN & CONTRACTS: Liberty & freedom are the conditions of man within a contractual society. - Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, 282.

FREEDOM, MAN & LIFE: To live the life proper to a man, one requires the highest feasible degree of freedom. - Paul Lepanto, Return to Reason, p. 102.

FREEDOM, MAN & POWER: "… a necessary safeguard against man's 'natural' tendency to abuse power. - William F. O'Neill, summarizing Ayn Rand's philosophy.

FREEDOM, MAN & PROGRESS: … we must conclude that 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, in so far 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.

FREEDOM, MAN, BEING HUMAN, HUMANITY: Both, Mackay as well as Fromm, scientists, and each in his way, came independently to the same discovery, that man can became a human being only under genuine Freedom. - MITTEILUNGEN DER MACKAY-GESELLSCHAFT, Nr. 5, Feb. 76. - How many others had made this "discovery" before them? - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, MAN, HUMAN NATURE: Without freedom, no one really has a name. - Milton Accorda. - Without freedom no one is really a person, a man or a human being. Freedom humanizes us, while oppression dehumanizes both, the oppressor as well as the oppressed. - J.Z., 12.7.92.

FREEDOM, MAN, MANKIND, STATISM, OBEDIENCE, SUBMISSIVENESS, SLAVE MENTALITY: According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any over-weening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition. - Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Harper, 1943, 314,

FREEDOM, MAN, NATURAL FREEDOM, MORALITY: "… mere human men and women, left to their own unplanned devices … can somehow find within themselves the natural springs of morality and intellectual enlightenment and progress. - Frederik Pohl & Jack Williamson, Starchild, 119. - At least some people can. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, MAN, NATURAL FREEDOM: "… freedom is the very nature of his"(our) "being…" - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, p. 83. - Rather, the precondition for the creative and productive use of all of our abilities. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, MAN, PEOPLE, STATISM, FREEDOM LOVERS: There are still men who want to live in freedom. - LERNZIEL ANARCHIE, Nr. 3.

FREEDOM, MAN, RULE, SLAVERY: The free man manipulates the world; the world manipulates the slave. - Ross Rocklynne, They Fly So High, Amazing Stories, 6/52, in: M.Ashley: History of the SF Magazine, III, 199. - The free man let's himself be ruled only by natural law, the slave by other men. - J.Z., 21.5.80.

FREEDOM, MARKET, LAISSEZ FAIRE, CONSTRAINTS, VIOLENCE: In the market economy, the laissez-faire type of social organization (J.Z. Note: Mises did not include panarchies as a laissez-faire type of social organization!), there is a sphere within which the individual is free to choose between various modes of acting without being restrained by the threat of being punished. If, however, the government does more than protect people against violent or fraudulent aggression on the part of anti-social individuals (Note by J.Z.: It is as unable to do so as it is to cope with e.g. the drug problem, postal & transport, health & social insurance services, rightful & efficient defence, etc.), it reduces the sphere of the individual's freedom to act beyond the degree to which it is restricted by praxeological law. Thus we may define freedom as that state of affairs in which the individual's discretion to choose is not constrained by governmental violence beyond the margin within which the praxeologivcal law restricts it anyway. - This is what is meant if one defines freedom as the condition of an individual within the frame of the market economy. He is free in the sense that the laws & the government do not force him to renounce his autonomy & self-determination to a greater extent than the inevitable praxeological law does. What he foregoes is only the animal freedom of living without regard to the existence of other specimens of his species. What the social apparatus of compulsion & coercion achieves is that individuals, whom malice, short-sightedness or mental inferiority prevents from realizing that by indulging in acts that are destroying society, that are hurting themselves & all other human beings, are compelled to avoid such acts. - Mises, Human Action, 282.

FREEDOM, MARKET, SOCIAL UTILITY: It is only the free market system that allows one to maximize one's social utility. - Patrick Brooks, 2/71.

FREEDOM, MASTERS & SLAVES: No man's master, no man's slave. - Jorj Matiasz, ELF.

FREEDOM, MATURITY, FITNESS FOR FREEDOM, READINESS FOR FREEDOM, FREEDOM OF ACTION, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM: Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever. - Thomas Babington Macaulay.

FREEDOM, MATURITY, GROWTH, GRANTS, WITHOLDING: Kan't insistence, in his defence of the French Revolution, that freedom is the pre-condition of acquiring the maturity for freedom, not a gift to be granted when such maturity is achieved. - Noam Chomsky, in Notes on Anarchism, ANARCHY, 116, Oct. 70.

FREEDOM, MATURITY, READINESS, PRACTICE: For by nothing is ripeness and capacity for freedom so much promoted as by freedom itself. This truth, perhaps, may not be acknowledged by those who have so often made use of this want of capacity as a plea for the continuance of repressive influences. But it seems to me to follow unquestionably from the very nature of man. - Wilhelm von Humboldt, in Sprading, Liberty & the Great Libertarians, 106.

FREEDOM, MAXIMUM: The essential new that we bring, the possible maximum of freedom for everybody without exception. In other words, the State of your dreams - if you demand no privilege for you at the expense of others. - Mackay Gesellschaft.

FREEDOM, MERELY A WORD? MERELY ON PAPER? Freedom is NOT just another world. - J.Z., 3/73.

FREEDOM, MINDS & BREEDING, CHILDREN: Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it. - Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book, 1927. - Freedom is much more than such a condition. It is the best relationship between people with minds. As such an idea it cannot be bred into one's children. All rights correspond to all our physical and mental abilities and options, e.g. economic liberties. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM, MODERATION, RADICALISM, EXTREMISM, VOLUNTARY SLAVERY, PANARCHISM: Freedom is not only good in moderation but even in extremes: E.g., it would be beneficial in the long run if at least some people would individually choose a condition of voluntary slavery for themselves - for a while, until they and others have become sufficiently enlightened about it. - J.Z., 28.3.82.

FREEDOM, MORAL CONDUCT & ENCROACHMENTS: Except in the case of actual encroachment, society has no more right to interfere with the morality of individual conduct than it has to interfere with the orthodoxy of individual belief. Neither comes within the jurisdiction of third persons except at the point where encroachment begins. - Stephen Pearl Andrews, quoted by Rocker, Pioneers of American Freedom, p. 83.

FREEDOM, MORALITY & ECONOMIC BENEFITS: Moral order and material benefits justify the condition of freedom. Rational man should demand no other course in life. - Ridgway K. Foley, Jr., THE FREEMAN, 4/73. - Our very nature, our very inborn characteristics and abilities, demand the condition of freedom between us. No one has a natural right to cripple or restrain another man's peaceful actions legally, juridically, criminally or otherwise. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, MORALITY & HAPPINESS: No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. - Spencer, Social Statics, IV, ch. 30, sec. 16. - But this doesn't mean that one should postpone one’s freedom, morality and happiness until all others can fully enjoy them. - J.Z., 28.3.99.

FREEDOM, MORE SUPPORTERS NEEDED: While such rare stalwarts as Solzhenitsyn may keep a few sparks aglow, it is only when freedom's flame is high and bright - when millions are free to act creatively - that such miracles as tapping solar energy are possible. - L.E. Read, THE FREEMAN, 11/74. - If you grow flowers in a pot or have a snack - you already tap solar energy. - J.Z., 15.4.00.

FREEDOM, MOTTO: Freedom is my motto. - J.Z., 24.12.73. - Under present conditions that motto can confuse not only your enemies but also your friends! - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM, MOVEMENT, ENERGY EXCHANGES: Freedom is nothing but movement - through energy exchanges. It is life itself. - Joan Marie Leonard in THE FREEMAN, 3/77.

FREEDOM, MUTUAL FREEDOM: When a free man has freedom, he is in a situation in which there are other free men, and none of them violate the natural ability each of them has. - LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, IV/2, Fall 1977.

FREEDOM, NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY & THE PEOPLE: National liberty, i.e. national sovereignty, independence and self-government is the most valuable possession of a people. - Popular view based on all kinds or false notion on consent and representation. Those on the top of territorial regimes want to make their victims believe that the power these few have in their hands is really the power of the sovereign people and their highest value. "You should be proud to be given the chance to die for your king or your country!" - Just ask yourself whether the individual member of "the" people, whenever they dissent, are free to secede from it. Public "education" has not dispelled but rather strengthened all the prejudices in favour of territorial national "freedom" and left the individualistic, voluntaristic and exterritorial autonomy community alternatives out of the discussion. "Nothing but what is voluntary deserves the term 'national'!" That last quote has been ascribed to Carolyne Chisholm, an Australian pioneer woman - but I have not yet found where or when she made such a remark. - The territorial "self-government" is certainly not a self-government of individual selves. - J.Z., 7.4.00.

FREEDOM, NATIONAL, SECURITY & ORDER: Freedom means order and security for nations. - Pelletier, LERNZIEL ANARCHIE, No. 3. - It is shameful that such remarks are still allowed to pass without arousing contradictory comments. Or was this an opinion which P. attacked there? - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM, NATIONALISM, DOMINATION, INTERNAL AFFAIRS, TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE, MAJORITY RULE: It may sound paradoxical that extension of "freedom" to some may result in more slavery for all (J.Z., if not for all then for others.). Modern socialist countries bear witness to this. The "freedom to rule" is a contradiction in terms. - REASON, 12.73. - Needs editing! - J.Z.

FREEDOM, NATURAL CONDITION: 1. Liberty is a natural condition. Every human being is born with the ability to act according to his own wisdom and conscience. 2. Freedom is a condition in which more than one person is present, but despite the ability each has to inflict a physical injury on another, there is an absence of such action. 3. Thus freedom is a natural state of collective liberty. It can be defined as an absence of coercion among human beings.

FREEDOM, NATURAL FREEDOM MAN: We maintain, therefore, that man is free NATURALLY. That a condition of other-than-freedom, in which circumstances of slavery manifest, is man-made and perforce artificial. We maintain that men cannot provide freedom for other men, for the freedom is theirs to begin with. - Robert LeFevre, March 24, 1956. In Watner, LeFevre, 58, motto above chapter 7. - What freedom lovers can and should do for other freedom lovers is merely to help them shift the weight of oppression from them and to try to do that not merely with "brute strength and stupidity" but with reason, using e.g. leverage intelligently and efficiently. - Handbooks on the machinery and processes, the tools, weapons and intellectual ammunition of liberty, its tactics and strategies, have still to be compiled and published. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, NATURAL LAW & AUTHORITARIANISM: People will live freely when they are in harmony with natural laws and refuse authoritarian demands. - RED & BLACK, No. 4, 1972.

FREEDOM, NATURAL, LEGAL & REGULATED: Legally regulated freedom is neither as moral nor as practicable as is natural freedom. - J.Z., 9.7.92.

FREEDOM, NATURAL: The cry for freedom is the scream of nature. - Title of an article by Thomas Frederick O'Connell, in THE FREEMAN, Nov. 73. - Also in GOOD GOVERNMENT, 2/75. - I have heard many natural sounds - but only very rarely a cry for freedom, and this in spite of the fact that I, as well as all others, am fully surrounded by nature and also part of it. We need more accuracy in the description of freedom. - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM, NATURE & MAN: Man ought to put himself in a position where he has the choice to fight only nature, not man. - J.Z., 23.5.87. - One fights or uses nature best by knowing and abiding by its laws. One fights the wrongful regimes over other men best by ignoring or abolishing their laws and collaborating with their victims. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, NECESSITY, UNITY, DOUBT & FREEDOM: When necessary, unity. When in doubt, freedom, but in all cases, patience. - Meldenius? (In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in ominibus autem caritas. - caritas = patience or, rather, care? - J.Z.)

FREEDOM, NEVER ENOUGH: There is never enough freedom. - J. Ehrlich, Vaucluse, in a letter to THE NATIONAL TIMES, 19.-24.2.73.

FREEDOM, NO GRANT. TAKE IT: Freedom cannot be granted. It must be taken. - Max Stirner: The Ego and His Own, 1845. - Seldes. - Genuine freedoms are rights. Rights are denied by Stirner, as spleens, infringing the individual's self-assertion and his power. Moreover, freedom is not simply lying around, there for the taking. - While, indeed, individual liberties and rights are not grants by other men, they do inherently exist in the nature of men, their suppression can either be practised or withdrawn. The withdrawal of suppression is not a grant of freedom but merely an ending of its suppression. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM, NO LIMITS: "In freedom there should be no limits." - "In heaven, he thought, there should be no limits." - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, p. 51. - In the direction of the sun, there is a significant limit, the sun itself. - The no-limits demand should be clearly expressed as: "no limits" upon the individual liberties that human beings claim, concede, assure and protect for each other, to the extent that they do agree with the equal liberties of all others. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, NO OBSTACLES: "Nihil obstat" is the whole meaning (of freedom), and is wholly that. - John Laird, On Human Freedom, London, 1947, p. 13.

FREEDOM, NO ONE TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO: Who tells you what you're to do? - No one, boy! That's the whole point of freedom. - Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson, Starchild, 41.

FREEDOM, NOT A PRIVILEGE BUT SOMETHING TO BE TAKEN: Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are (J.Z.: or can use) as free as they want to be. (*)- James Baldwin, Notes for a Hypothetical Novel, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961. - I would add: and are willing to think, train and fight for. - J.Z., 20.11.85, 17.4.00.

FREEDOM, NOT INDIVISIBLE: Freedom is not indivisible. The more freedom the better, which means that some freedom is better than none at all, and more than some is better still. - Buckley, Up from Liberalism, 184.

FREEDOM, NOT LICENSE, CIVILIZATION, FREEDOM IN SOCIETY: The civilized person realizes how incorrect it is to think of freedom as synonymous with unrestrained action. Freedom does not and cannot include any action, regardless of sponsorship, which lessens the freedom of a single human being. (J.Z.: Unless he is a criminal with victims!) To argue contrarily is to claim that freedom can be composed of freedom negations, patently absurd. Unrestraint carried to the point of impairing the freedom of others is the exercise of license, not freedom. To minimize the exercise of license is to maximize the area of freedom. - Leonard E. Read, Then Truth Will Out, 2.

FREEDOM, NOT SUBSTITUTE FOR - : For freedom there is not substitute; there can be no substitute. - Rudolf Rocker, Nationalism and Culture, 237. - Especially not if one includes under freedom the panarchistic freedom to be unfree, i.e., for individuals the option to choose a condition of unfreedom for themselves. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM, OBJECTION, VAGUENESS: Freedom is a vague notion. - Bismarck. - It was, indeed, for this man of iron and bloodshed, in the cause of national unity and government power. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, OBJECTIONS, A LUXURY: Freedom is a luxury which not everyone can afford. - Bismarck. - As if the practice of liberties were merely an expense and not the greatest source of rightful income. - Perhaps, like G.B. Shaw, he equated it with idleness or leisure activities. - J.Z., n.d.

FREEDOM, OBJECTIONS, HUNGER, POVERTY: You can't eat freedom! - Yes, but you can eat better when you are free. - J.Z. 23.5.73. - How much about freedom, all liberties and rights, is taught in our schools and universities - or, rather, how little? And how limited is the treatment of these subjects in the mass media? But, instead of complaining, we should use the affordable and efficient alternative media for this job. Do we? - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, OBJECTIONS, ORDER: We want to oppose the limitless freedom of the liberal theory in our economic lives by an orderly and planned economy. - View popular among statists, especially state socialists. - The less people know of economics, a free market and capitalism, the more they do cry for order and planning. They are unaware to what extent all their current economic problems are the result of attempting to introduce one or the other kind of - "orderly" or centrally and exclusively "planned" and then enforced - economic system upon followers and dissenters alike. - J.Z., 7.4.00.

FREEDOM, OBJECTIONS: "I'm no enemy of liberty but what have we done with it? For 2,000 years we have more and more abused our liberties." - Popular opinion. - For 2,000 years we had recognized and practised only a tiny fraction of all liberties. Instead, all too many people have either used coercion or fraud or let themselves be abused by those who used coercion or fraud against them. It is absurd to describe that situation as one of freedom. - Anyhow, how do YOU spend your leisure time? Developing and spreading liberty ideas or? - J.Z., n.d., & 9.5.00

FREEDOM, OBJECTIONS: Freedom is not enough. - Lyndon B. Johnson. - Not the modern "liberal's" or "democrat's" or "conservative's" kind of freedom, anyhow. With that most anarchists and libertarians would agree. Such critics do not know what full freedom means and what it can and will achieve. - J.Z., 9.7.92, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, OBJECTIONS: The individual can't be free in the choice of his social and political environment but it can be free in his individual point of view towards his environment. - Popular unchecked premise that ignores the panarchistic or exterritorial and voluntaristic alternatives for societal autonomous actions. It resembles the opinion of Frederick the Great who said: "Argue as much and about whatever you like - but obey! We should have advanced from this point of view - after about 250 years. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, OBJECTIONS: It is still very doubtful whether freedom is a desirable aim for man. Freedom leads most people to an excessive stress upon the individual. Thereby the power of society is weakened and an unbearable egoism is produced. - Popular opinion. - If the individual is set free then it is best integrated into a social community and even into a world community. For instance: Free choice of profession and free choice among jobs, free trade and free enterprise, a free market, freedom of contract. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, OBJECTIONS: Men absolutely desire the freedom to ruin each other. - Fichte, Der geschlossene Handelsstaat, 2.3. - That book proposed an economic system much like the Soviet system. To that extent Fichte provided a proof for his saying. Freedom, arbitrariness and power should be distinguished from each other. In reality, economic freedom does not ruin but it’s the road to wide-spread wealth for all peaceful and productive people. - The Fichte of 1793 had better ideas, in his book on the French Revolution. - J.Z., 22.7.9\86 & 17.4.00.

FREEDOM, OF, FROM & TO: The "freedom" of the Press, the "freedom" of association, the "freedom" of trade - all such uses of the word seem to me wrong, for freedom is an abstract concept, a philosophical word. What these people mean by their "freedoms" is really a negative condition - the absence of control, the liberty of unlicensed conduct (it is significant that a complete ambiguity or equivocation has also overtaken the word "licence"). Freedom, in this sense, always implies freedom from - freedom from some kind of control. But freedom in the sense I shall use the word is a positive condition - specifically, freedom to create, freedom to become what one is. The word implies an obligation. - Herbert Read, Anarchy & Order, 161.

FREEDOM, OJECTIONS: It is nevertheless quite possible that the "free" suffer more than the "enthralled". Freedom brings responsibility and often guilt. It may indeed provide a deeper satisfaction and a richer life, but the evaluation of such rewards is a distressingly subjective process. Perhaps no argument in favor of liberty can satisfy the intellect; perhaps the best we can hope for is a shared emotional conviction. - Patrick L. McGuire, comments to Poul Anderson, The Book of Poul Anderson, p. 95. - Only a man who knows very little about freedom could make such a remark. - J.Z. 10.4.00. - But he is right about one thing: Full freedom should not be forced upon anybody. It should be chosen by individuals, step by step, at their own speed of mental development. Otherwise, they do become enemies of a freedom they do not as yet understand and cannot as yet sufficiently handle. Those who were too long in a prison, with other people thinking and acting for them, come to fear open doors and the decisions expected behind them. Let them have their half-way houses! - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, OPPORTUNITIES, UNDERSTANDING, ADDICTION, FAITH, CONVICTION: Whosoever understands freedom's opportunities becomes firmly addicted to liberty. - J.Z., 20.5.76. - The fact that there are so few addicts to all of freedom's drugs proves that there is still all too little understanding and practice of freedom - even among the those calling themselves friends, lovers, students and scholars of liberty. - J.Z., 11.4.00 & 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, OPPORTUNITY, FRONTIERS, FOREIGNERS & ALIENS: When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside. - Wendell L. Willkie: One World. - Seldes. - Compare how we tread "illegal immigrants" and "economic migrants" & even obvious refugees in our times! - J.Z., 13.4.00. - Today I read that 2000 boat people have been in a concentration camp in the Phillippines for 10 years - and the free countries are still not free enough to be willing to welcome them as people who could, as free labourers, help them to increase their standard of living further, e.g. by increasing the division of labour. But under monetary despotism our bureaucrats and politicians cannot cope with them and so keep them out using the navy to do so! - Freedom lovers should study how to provide full employment to millions within days, without depriving anyone of his job, using especially monetary freedom options, under all conditions except those of a raging war, civil war or natural catastrophy. - Start with PEACE PLANS No. 10! - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, OPPOSITION, MOTION: Liberty, or Freedom, signifieth, properly, the absence of opposition: by opposition, I mean external impediments of motion. - Hobbes, Leviathan.

FREEDOM, OPPRESSION, REVOLUTION & TYRANNY: No doubt, freedom is good and oppression bad. But oppression cannot be stopped by oppressive means, and freedom cannot be promoted by first denying it. Would-be revolutionaries who ignore these facts will never bring about a genuine revolution. Their best efforts - as the history of all past "revolutions" goes to show - can only lead to new forms of tyranny. - MINUS ONE, No. 30.

FREEDOM, OWN JUDGMENT, FREEDOM OF ACTION, NON-INITIATION OF FORCE: Freedom is the ability to act without hindrance or restraint. When embodied in a political principle, freedom as applied to individuals living in a society refers to the right to act or not to act according to one's own judgment, so long as one does not initiate force against anyone else attempting to implement the same freedom. - The Incredible Bread Machine, 126.

FREEDOM, PANARCHISM, FREEDOM FOR ALL & DIVERSITY: Freedom means diversity for all - according to individual choice in all spheres, including those of political, economic and social organization and even though this can be fully realized only on the basis of exterritorial autonomy. - J.Z., 10.7.86.

FREEDOM, PANARCHISTS, ANARCHISTS & LIBERTARIANS: Most freedom lovers are prejudiced against one or the other practice of liberty. They would and should therefore agree only upon one point: Free individual choice to use or not to use any liberty among like-minded volunteers. They must become as tolerant even towards the enemies of liberty - while these do nothing but their own things to themselves. - J.Z., 25.8.93.

FREEDOM, PARASITES & WELFARE STATES: As freemen we live off slaves. - Euripides. - now, as "free" men, we (all too many of us) live off tax slaves. - J.Z., 17.3.95, 23.3.99.

FREEDOM, PARLIAMENTS & CLASSICAL LIBERTIES: Parliamentary freedom, writes Count Sforza in his European Dictatorships, is a form of freedom. But the essential freedom, without which a people is doomed to decline, is freedom of thought, of speech, of the Press, of association. - G.P. Gooch, Dictatorship in Theory & Practice, 46. - As if economic rights and liberties did not matter at all! Few of such intellectual would comprehend all economic liberties under "freedom of association" - unless they are clearly spelled out to them - and then they would raise hundreds to thousands of objections against such "excessive" and "chaotic", "dangerous" and "exploitative" liberties! - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, PASSIVITY & MILITANCY: With some, the word seems to imply passivity, and even supine surrender in the face of opposition. With others, the word denotes the concept of ultimate military might where freedom can be gained by defeating any power or combination of powers on earth who appear to oppose individual liberty. - LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Fall 77.

FREEDOM, PAYING ONE'S WAY: Freedom for all who pay their way. - Sponti-Special, Eichborn Verlag. - Should that be confined to payments with the money of monetary despotism or should we extend the ability to pay to the utmost by monetary freedom? - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, PEACE & NON-COERCION: To me, freedom is a state or condition of non-coercion. It is a situation, a condition, a climate, if you will, in which no one coerces you and in which you coerce no one. Anything more, less, or other than this, is not freedom. - LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Winter 75. - What about the rightful use of some force, in self-defence, against those who try to coerce you? LeFevre would probably have condemned rightful and forceful self-defence as "retaliation". - Even that subject is still muddled up in most minds. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, PEACE & WAR: The free man is a peaceful man. The unfree man is a warmonger - even if he is nothing but a slave. - J.Z., 11.1.74. - I do hope that all peaceful men do not remain quite peaceful after someone willfully stepped on their toes or threatened to poke their eyes out. - Unfree men, identifying with military power and victories, feel powerful, like some enthusiastic spectators watching the feats of some of their football heroes. Those with sufficient experience of war come to hate it. But they have still not sufficient knowledge of and experience with the libertarian ways to end and prevent wars. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, PEOPLE & EGOISM: The people's freedom is not my freedom. - Sid Parker. - Compare Max Stirner on this.

FREEDOM, PERFECT FREEDOM: Nobody can be perfectly free till all are free. - Source? - As free as they want to be. - J.Z., 12.7.86.

FREEDOM, PERMITS, LICENSING: It's great to be free. Permits available at nearby Federal, State and Local Government offices. - Simon Jester Sticker.

FREEDOM, PERSONAL & ECONOMIC: Freedom of the person on the basis of economic freedom, freedom to produce, own and exchange. - J.Z., 26.10.82.

FREEDOM, PIONEERING, DISCOVERIES, EXPLORATIONS: Most of the world of freedom remains still to be discovered - by most people. Alas, few dare to be among these explorers, discoverers and pioneers. They rather participate in sports or entertainment or tourism - or are couch potatoes. - J.Z., 8.4.77, 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, PLEASURE & PAIN: Freedom is a possession whose existence provides less pleasures than its absence provides in pains. - Jean Paul. - The purpose of freedom is not necessarily only happiness or pleasure or the avoidance of pain. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, PLENTY, PROSPERITY, WEALTH: The secret of our plenty is freedom. - From film: The State of the Union.

FREEDOM, POLITICAL & ECONOMIC FREEDOM: Political freedom is the essential condition for the economic liberation of the working class. - Communist and socialist doctrine. - More than 100 years ago socialists believed that they could "liberate the proletariat" via "the" vote. In reality, one can have a large degree of economic liberty even while conventional political "liberties", like general franchise, free voting and multiple parties and the parliamentary system are largely repressed. In practice, political liberties have largely been used to suppress economic liberties, rather than introducing them. - J.Z., 7.4.00.

FREEDOM, POLITICAL FREEDOM: Freedom is political power, divided into small pieces. - Hobbes, retranslated from German. - Freedom is much more and also much less than the right to vote or to be voted for. It frees us from the power of others and their votes and decisions and it limits us to actions that do not infringe the rights and liberties of others. Hobbes seemed to have been blind, like so many others are now, to these aspects of liberty. Freedom cannot be rightly confined to democracy or republicanism and civil rights. The latter are all to often used to wrongfully restrict freedom. - J.Z., 9.4.00.

FREEDOM, POLITICAL FREEDOM: Political freedom is a suitable fable which the rulers have invented to put the ruled to sleep. - Napoleon I. - See under Nationalism, Representation, Consent, Democracy, Voting.

FREEDOM, POLITICAL, COLLECTIVIST & INDIVIDUAL: The political tendencies of our time are continuingly centralist, and have reached the point generally where it is impossible to infer the extent to which a people are free from the mere fact that they enjoy political freedom. In the last analysis, political freedom guarantees freedom only to the collectivity, within which the individual may be enslaved. - Buckley, Up from Liberalism, 124.

FREEDOM, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC & INTELLECTUAL: Political freedom requires economic freedom. "Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and free market are corollaries." - Ayn Rand, quoted in Textbook of Americanism, p. 12, chapter headed: The Economic Prerequisites for Objectivity.

FREEDOM, POSSIBLE OR INEVITABLE? Freedom is not only possible, it is inevitable. - Central News Service, Information Paper # 4, in TC114p52. - But only when all is done that could and should be done for freedom, with all the tools, machinery and media that are now available for this. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, POVERTY & DEVELOPMENT: Our emissaries do not tell what really brought the U.S. from a poor, undeveloped nation to what it is today. Nor is this clearly revealed in the model we hold up before them. Unseen and untold is the need for a high degree of individual freedom in all walks of life - freedom to make mistakes and pay the price, as well as freedom to succeed and reap the rewards. - W.M. Curtiss, The Population Problem, THE FREEMAN, May 1967.

FREEDOM, POWER & DECISION-MAKING: He is free… who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power. - Salvador De Madariaga, N.Y. TIMES, Jan. 29, 1957. - Seldes.

FREEDOM, POWER & PROGRESS: Do we conceive social betterment to be in the pitiless use of irresistible power? Or do we conceive it to rise out of the irresistible might of a body of free men? - Candidate Woodrow Wilson, 1912, N.Y. Press Club Address.

FREEDOM, POWER & WILL: By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determination of the will. - David Hume.

FREEDOM, POWER, FORCE: The opposite to power or force is freedom. Freedom is the only thing that can solve our problems and, incredibly, it is the only thing most people aren't game to try. - Bob Howard & John Singleton, Rip Van Australia, 203.

FREEDOM, PRACTICABILITY, USEFULNESS, IT WORKS: "… freedom works better than restraint in a significantly greater number of cases. - Ridgway K. Foley, Jr., THE FREEMAN, 4/73. - I would want it, even if it didn't! - I want to practise certain things although I do know that all these things could be done much better by others. In spite of their greater abilities, they can't live my life for me. Moreover, my freedom requires, among other things, a maximum of restraints upon e.g. the production, storage and use of ABC mass murder devices. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, PRACTICE, STUPIDITY: It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence(*) never to practise either of them. - Mark Twain. - (*) stupidity! -and that is never precious! - Nor do we have to thank a "god" for our rights. They are inherent in our nature and in our reason. - J.Z. , n.d. & 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, PRECONDITION FOR MATURITY FOR FREEDOM: Kant's insistence, in his defence of the French Revolution, that freedom is the precondition for acquiring the maturity for freedom, not a gift to be granted when such maturity is achieved. … - Noam Chomsky, For Reasons of Sate, 156.

FREEDOM, PREJUDICES: Men act all the better the smaller the sphere is in which they have the free choice for their actions. To restrict this sphere is the main function of laws. - Popular prejudice. - In the ultimate it means: Everything not prescribed is forbidden. Thus views are still held in a time when so many laws exist that no one has even time to read all of them, far less to apply all of them. Indeed, there are all too many who would like to reduce us to the status of ants or bees. - J.Z. 7.4.00.

FREEDOM, PREJUDICES: If you desire freedom, man's greatest distinction, then dominate over passion, inclination and greed. - Fr. Rueckert. (Wenn Freiheit du begehrst, des Menschen groesste Zierde, Herrsch' ueber Leidenschaft und Neigung und Begierde.)

FREEDOM, PREJUDICES: In the free West everything worth knowing is freely accessible. - Popular opinion, now regarding the Internet as well. - There are numerous military and governmental as well as business secrets. Moreover, in the absence of an ideas archive and talent registry, our most important resources are not readily accessible. Nor are, obviously, all the answers which libertarians and anarchists have to offer. They do not offer even all their literature to themselves, in cheap and permanent editions, in alternative media. Not even all the numerous educational small meetings in large cities are well enough advertised in advance to reach more than a tiny fraction of their potential audience. Nowhere does a complete world library and information service exist. The Internet offers so far only a fraction of all the freedom pages ever published or written for publication. The supposed "free market for ideas" is so far an illusion but one powerful enough to prevent the establishment of so important a market - under the assumption that it does already exist. - J.Z. 7.4.00.

FREEDOM, PRICE OF - , DIVORCE: Americans have always been very willing to pay any price for freedom. If you don't believe it, look at the divorce statistics. - Robert Orben, SLM, 12/76. As exceptional examples one might also quote the costs of prohibition and the costs of alcoholic drinks under prohibition or the prices people are willing to pay for fashions or cosmetic improvements, which they think increase their personal freedom and well-being. But most Americans have not been striving for full liberty in every sphere, although some Americans have always advocated and tried to practise one or several liberties. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, PRICE OF - : What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; tis dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated. - Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1, Dec. 23, 1976. - Nevertheless, freedom opportunities that remain are often considered to be of so little value that they are ignored. E.g. the most common stand towards the microfilm freedom of expression and information opportunities. And while many individual rights cannot be freely practised, they could at least be thoroughly discussed. But such discussions are all too boring for most of those who could benefit most of them. We have rather to think and work ourselves towards liberty than shout or fight for it. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM, PRICE OF -: Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth. - Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 1^st. century, 104.34, tr. E. Phillips Barker.

FREEDOM, PRICE OF FREEDOM: Or, is the price of freedom an intellectual and spiritual renaissance with all the hard thinking and difficult introspection required to energize such a revolution in thinking? - Leonard E. Read, Elements of Libertarian Leadership, 16. - I call the institutionalization or automation of this renaissance: a program for a genuinely cultural revolution to speed up the process of enlightenment - and you will find much about this program in my series. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, PRICELESS, REFUGEES: Freedom is priceless - ask any refugee. - SOUTHERN LIBERTARIAN MESSENGER, Jan. 84.

FREEDOM, PRINCIPLES, IDEALS: It includes the introduction of principles and the latitude of pursuing them. It means the possibility of using a principle by means of which one can intellectually reject any and all practices which fall short of the ideal, and to pursue the ideal which is in harmony with the principles. - Robert LeFevre, Must We Depend Upon Political Protection? p. 59.

FREEDOM, PRIORITY, VALUES: Freedom above all else. - Dean Smith, Conservatism, 63. - That is o.k. for those who love it most. Freedom lovers should let others have their own choices, even if and while they prefer something else to freedom, provided, naturally, they do so only at their own risk and expense. E.g. by outlawing communist practices in Russia, among its remaining communists, we do unwittingly drive them towards grasping for power, once again. Let them, alone, suffer under their chosen form of communism and let all others, around them, provide them with instances of free lives and their benefits - then the still all too large number of indoctrinated communists will tend to shrink, perhaps rapidly. Anyhow, there, too, still all too much of a coercive and collectivist system remains and all its consequences are now blamed on "freedom". - J.Z., 12.4.00.

FREEDOM, PRIVILEGE & CUSTOM: Freedom is not a privilege that is granted but a habit that must be acquired. - Henry George. - Text re-translated from a German version.

FREEDOM, PROBLEMS: Can you solve your problems without full individual liberty? - J.Z., 10/72.

FREEDOM, PROGRESS & LAW: In the name of progress and freedom both progress and freedom are being outlawed. - Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government, 11.

FREEDOM, PROGRESS, CIVILIZATION, SLAVERY, MORALITY: No slave-holding people were ever an inventive people. In a slave-holding community the upper classes may become luxurious & polished; but never inventive. Whatever degrades the laborer & robs him of the fruits of his toil stifles the spirit of invention & forbids the utilization of inventions & discoveries even when made. To freedom alone is given the spell of power which summons the genii in whose keeping are the treasures of earth & the viewless forces of the air. - The law of human progress, what is it but the moral law? Just as social adjustments promote justice, just as they acknowledge the equality of right between man & man, just as they insure to each the perfect liberty which is bounded only by the equal liberty of every other, must civilization advance. Just as they fail in this, must advancing civilization come to a halt & recede. - Henry George, Progress & Poverty, Book X, & of ch. III.
 
 

FREEDOM, PROGRESS, PROSPERITY, MORALITY, CULTURE, PEACE: What then is the answer? In one word the answer is FREEDOM. Freedom is the one essential requirement without which there can be no prosperity, culture, morality or peace. - Progress Party, Platform, 1.3.

FREEDOM, PROHIBITIONS & CREATIVITY: Says the Libertarian, "Freely choose how you act creatively, productively. I have no desire to prohibit you or others in this respect. I have no prohibitory designs on you of any kind except as you or others would keep me and others from acting creatively, productively, as we freely choose." - Be it noted that the libertarian in his hoped-for prohibition of destructive actions does no violence to anyone else's liberty, none whatsoever. The word liberty would never be used by an individual completely isolated from others; it is a social term. We must not, therefore, think of liberty as being restrained when fraud, violence, and the like are prohibited, for such actions violate the liberty of others, and liberty cannot be composed of liberty negations. This is self-evident. Thus, any accomplished libertarian would never prohibit the liberty of another. - Leonard E. Read, What Shall Be Prohibited, Essays on Liberty, XI, 39.

FREEDOM, PROPERTY & CONTRACTS: Personal freedom cannot even be conceived outside the environment provided by property & contract rights. - Sylvester Petro, The Labor Policy of the Free Society.

FREEDOM, PROPERTY & SELF-OWNERSHIP: Freedom exists to the extent that a man can use his property (broadly defined to include his life, body, personal possessions, ideas or anything of value to him) any way he wishes, so long as he does not infringe upon the property rights of others. The only purpose and function of government is to protect these property rights.(*) Most of human misery can be attributed to the failure of government to protect or the actual infringement by government itself on these rights. - Rod Manis, Manifesto, 112. - (*) The following sentence should have induced Manis to ask: Is even a limited territorial government a rightful and the best possible organization to protect property rights? What is supposed to make a territorial government efficient in this sphere when, obviously, it is inefficient in all others and when there is no precedent for a territorial and coercive government, with a monopoly and compulsory subjects, as an efficient protector of the property rights of its subjects and when all governments take more in taxes and liberties than all other thieves combined? - J.Z. 14.4.00.

FREEDOM, PROPERTY & SERVICE: Freedom through proprietary service. - Title of a 47 minute, 35mm colour slide film, with sound track, offered by J.S. Snelson, L.A. - I would love to microfiche a list of all anarchist and libertarian films, audio- and video tapes - of someone has already bothered to compile it. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, PROPERTY, COMMUNITIES & JUSTICE: My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. I extend the principle to communities of men as well as to individuals. I so extend it because it is politically wise, as well as naturally just: politically wise in saving us from broils about matters which do not concern us. - Abraham Lincoln. - And then he led Americans into their bloodiest and most destructive war. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, PROPERTY, WEALTH & PRODUCTION: Freedom and property are directly connected: one favours the distribution of wealth, the other makes production possible. - Ch. de Brouckere, Principes generaux d'economie politique, quoted by dePuydt in: Panarchy.

FREEDOM, PROSPERITY & MORALITY: The open-ended society of Adam Smith, favoring freedom as primarily a MORAL goal, and viewing prosperity as an incidental accompanying blessing. … - Roche III, Bastiat, 181.

FREEDOM, PROSPERTY & TERRORISM: While there are exceptions, few terrorists come from places where there is freedom and prosperity. - Phil Trice, in letter to ANALOG, 9/99, 139.

FREEDOM, PROTECTIONISM & THE POOR: What article in the tariff law protects the poor? - Frederic Bastiat, Economic Sophisms, 101. - They have been fooled into believing that tariffs protect their jobs! - J.Z.

FREEDOM, PUBLIC SPIRIT & LAW: Wherever public spirit prevails, liberty is secure. - Noah Webster, 1758-1843. - Mostly, when "public spirit" is expressed in laws or in "public opinion" it threatens or suppresses individual liberties. A public spirit upholding all liberties does not even exist among all those calling themselves libertarians and anarchists. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, RATIONALITY & REASON: Freedom is nothing but the possibility to do under all conditions that what is reasonable. - Goethe, zu Kanzler Mueller, 1827. Another translation: Freedom is nothing but the possibility to act rationally under all conditions. (Freiheit ist nichts als die Moeglichkeit unter allen Bedingungen das Vernuenftige zu tun.) - According to this definition one would do no wrong if one were to force someone to do that what as a reasonable being he would do himself. But in this case one would certainly infringe his right to make his own choices, however unreasonable they are, his right to make mistakes at the own risk and expense. - Still, I would try to prevent a suicide if I could, under the assumption that in most cases there is no good reason for a suicide and the person making the attempt is not at his personal best but, temporarily "out of his mind". Thus I would not prevent him as a rational person. - If you feel uncomfortable with this kind of "rationalization" then consider the extreme case of suicides, made by children from the age of 5 year onwards. Would you let them go ahead with it, when you could hold them back from it? Would standing back be the correct libertarian behaviour - even in this case? - If the person attempting the suicide had a good reason, he will, mostly, have many more chances to go ahead with it, later on, when he is out of your reach. Then, even if you knew that reason and could interfere, you would not, and rightly so. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, REACH, ATTAINABLE: Freedom is within reach. - David Jenkins, Job Power, 326. - Yes, like the 5 cent piece stuck to the Hume Highway, in front of the pub in Berrima, for the past few years. You have only to squat and prize it loose and then you have this tiny bit of "freedom". But what about all the rest, which you cannot pick up as fast and easily? I have seen it hundreds of times and it is such a trivial "freedom offer" that I haven't bothered to take it, just like I don't to the "freedom" of the territorial political vote. - But, indeed, there are some significant freedom opportunities that are within our reach and we should make the best use of them, like e.g. microfiche, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, especially for all freedom writings. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, REALISM, FUTURISM, PREDICTIONS, MAN & HIS NATURE: Try to see things, men and their institutions, not only as they are but also as they could be - under freedom. - J.Z., 29.12.75.

FREEDOM, REALITY, LAWS OF NATURE: "… the command of nature through acceptance of the laws of nature - true freedom requires the acceptance of reality. - Diogenes of Panarchia, TC121p23.

FREEDOM, REALIZATION: Freedom is unlikely to become realized by a few large jumps by a few - but it has a good chance to be realized via many small steps by many different people. In other words, its realization is a self-responsibility that cannot be delegated to a handful of professionals. - J.Z., 30.3.89.

FREEDOM, REASON & WILL: … the causality of reason in the determination of the will. - Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft, Vorlaender, p. 831.

FREEDOM, REASON, POWER & PRACTICALITY: The positive concept of freedom is that of the power of pure reason to be of itself practical. - Jeffrie G. Murphy, Kant, The Philosophy of Right, 81. - Help to compile all the blueprints for liberty! - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, REASON, RATIONALITY, MORALITY, RIGHTS & MAN'S NATURE, FREEDOM OF ACTION & MIND: The source of rights, of man's moral claim to freedom, is his rational nature. Reason is man's tool of survival, his means of living. Human action by nature is rational action, proceeding from the mind of an individual. And freedom from coercion is a requirement for such action. A man cannot act on the basis of his mind if the will of another is interposed between his mind and his action. Man has, therefore, a moral claim - a right - to freedom of action. - Ayn Rand, Man's rights, in The Virtue of Selfishness, N.Y., New American Library, 1964, quoted by David Kelly, in THE FREEMAN, 10/75, pp 617/618. - Man has also the right to act irrationally, at his own risk and expense. That is his major way to learn to act rationally. - J.Z., 16.4.00. - Ayn Rand's freedom ideas have been alphabetized in a book. Those of all other libertarians haven't as yet, in a libertarian encyclopedia. Why not? - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, RECONCILIATION, PARTIES & PANARCHY: How can they be reconciled? By not trying to reconcile them at all; by letting each party govern itself - in its own way and at its own expense. Theocracy, if you want it. Freedom should even extend to the right not to be free and should include it. - dePuydt, On Panarchy.

FREEDOM, RE-DISCOVER & DISCOVER: Let us re-discover freedom - or discover it. - J.Z., 13.11.73, & 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, RELIGIONS & SPORTS: The best achievement of sportsmen as well as religious people is the examples they have set which prove that quite different games, rules and rituals can be peacefully played with at the expense and risk of different people, all volunteers, in the same country. Their examples are applicable to political, economic and social systems or experiments tried out within volunteer communities that are only exterritorially autonomous. Alas, most religious and sports people are nor aware of this, nor are most students and scholars of political, economic and social systems, although they have these examples right before their own eyes and could abstract their exterritorial autonomy and voluntaristic features from them and should have come across at least some of the personal or exterritorial autonomy law traditions and their few remainders. On such important subjects a few hints should suffice - for sufficiently rational beings. Alas, they don't. Does that mean that most people are not sufficiently rational, observant and thoughtful, aware, conscious and open-minded? - J.Z., 10.4.00.

FREEDOM, RESPONSIBILITY & COMPULSION: One day freedom will teach you and compel you to stand on your own feet. - What? Freedom compels? - Yes, indeed. It will make it necessary for you to represent your own affairs yourself, instead of entrusting them to others. - John Henry Mackay, Abrechnung, 167/168.

FREEDOM, RESPONSIBILITY, FIGHTING FOR - : A person can't tun out on responsibility… It means being so devoted to freedom that you are willing to give up your own own … be a beggar … or a slave … or die - that freedom may live. - Robert Heinlein, Citizen of the Galaxy, 252.

FREEDOM, RESPONSIBILITY, NON-COERCION: When enough of us can truthfully say - I relish the burden of freedom - responsibility for self - as much, if not more, than its countless blessings, the noncoercive society will be ours. - From old reply envelope of FEE.

FREEDOM, RESTRAINT, FETTERS, RESPONSIBILITY, EQUAL FREEDOM, FREEDOM OR ARBITRARINESS OF THE INDIVIDUAL VS. FREEDOM IN SOCIETY: Freedom means making your own fetters. (*) A free man circumscribes his actions just as surely as a slave. (**) The difference: the free man chooses his own yoke; the preceptor imposes a harness upon the serf. - Ridgeway K. Foley, Jr., THE FREEMAN, 3/77. - (*) Are responsibilities and duties genuine fetters or chains? (**) Doesn't he have a wider sphere for free actions? - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, RESTRAINT, POWER & GOVERNMENT: Freedom is the absence of restraint. Government cannot give freedom, it can only take it away. The more power the government exercises the less freedom will the people enjoy. And when government has a monopoly of power the people have not freedom. That is the definition of absolutism - monopoly of power. - Frank Chodorov, The Income Tax, 87.

FREEDOM, RESTRAINTS, CONSCIENCE, LOVE & DUTY: Free Men are bound by a thousand chains of conscience, love and duty; it is the slave to himself who stumbles through life unattached and careless, given to loose talk and loose thinking. - D. Runes, A Dictionary of Thought, 43. - One might even add: and to criminal actions, i.e., crimes with victims. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, RESTRAINTS: Keep a man from exercising his mind, his body, his faculties in the pursuit of his own wishes and delights, keep him from enjoying the fruits of his efforts - and you have done everything evil to him that you can. - THE FREE MAN'S ALMANACH, edited by Leonard E. Read.

FREEDOM, RESTRICTIONS, REGULATIONS, ECONOMIC LIBERTY: In the CITY PRESS, Commander Hyde Burton demands a "complete review of the present 24,000 regulations restricting the economic freedom that England enjoyed in 1913."- It is a pity that he did not go further and revive that wise proposal of Jefferson to restrict the operation of all laws to 30 years, and of regulations to a few years only. - Henry Meulen, THE INDIVIDUALIST, August 11951. - Better still, let individuals opt out from all territorial laws selected ones and apply their own revised body of laws within their own volunteer communities, under personal laws, exterritorially quite autonomously. - J.Z., 4.4.00.

FREEDOM, REVOLUTION, EVOLUTION, BARBARISM, CIVILIZATION: To move into a free society is an evolutionary process, not a revolutionary one.(*) - Barbarians are not ready for freedom. Civilized people are. (**) Our task is not to impose freedom, but to encourage the advance of civilization.(***) Barbarism vanishes when there are enough civilized people who accept their own liberty and limit their actions to the areas of their own lives and properties, and hold their actions to the level of their own competence. - LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Fall 77. - (*) If one starts with a democracy rather than a dictatorship or a totalitarian State. Both of the latter tend to repress evolution rather drastically. (**) Many people who are otherwise civilized are not civilized in this respect. (***) If we want to survive territorialism and e.g. its ABC mass murder devices, then we may have to impose individual secessionism and exterritorially autonomous communities of volunteers upon all territorial States. That could best be done by all resistance groups adopting the panarchistic framework against all aggressions by territorial States and thereby achieving sufficient unity among themselves & gaining many allies among the armed and unarmed subjects of such States. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, RICHES & EQUALITY: Freedom will ultimately make all men rich; it will not make all men equally rich. Authority may (and may not) make all men equally rich in purse; it certainly will make them equally poor in all that makes life worth living. - Benjamin R. Tucker, in a short set of quotations from him compiled by Joe Labadie.

FREEDOM, RICHES, WEALTH: Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves. - William Hazlitt, "Commonplaces", The Round Table, 1817, 2.

FREEDOM, RICHNESS, POSSESSIONS & PERSONAL FREEDOM: I learned early with Thoreau that a man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone; and in view of this I have always considered myself extremely well-to-do. All I ever asked of life was the freedom to think and say exactly what I pleased, when I pleased, and as I pleased. I have always had that freedom… and having had it, I always felt I could well afford to let all else alone. - - Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, Harper, 1943, 321. - If that is really all there is to freedom, then those who reduced their wants even further might have to be considered to be the most free men? Possibly the hermits in their lonely huts or the men who preferred to stand, silently on pillars? - J.Z., 6.5.00.

FREEDOM, RIGHT & DUTY: Freedom is a duty, even more than a right. - Oriana Fallaci, A Man, 10. - The simple duty that is always involved with rights is to respect the rights of others. All enemies of "duty" should at least concede that. - J.Z., 9.5.00.

FREEDOM, RIGHT, DUTY & OUGHT: "… freedom is not the right to do as one pleases but as one ought. - Ronald Conway, QUADRANT, 4/76.

FREEDOM, RIGHT, WILL, DUTY, MORAL IMPERATIVE, REASON, MAN, MEANS & ENDS: Kant interpreted freedom as the right to will a self-imposed imperative of duty, and he insisted that every man, possessing, in virtue of his reason, such a will, existed, and ought to be used, always as an end in himself and never as merely a means. - Ernest Barker, Political Thought in England 1848 to 1914, 25.

FREEDOM, RIGHTS, MORALITY, RESTRAINTS, MISTAKES: Which view of rights, apart from their similarities, should guide American law and culture: freedom from restraint, or adherence to moral law? If we're reasonable and honest, we'll probably have to answer, albeit grudgingly, "Some of both." Regardless of our own preference, we can hardly prevent people from committing offensive acts that do not involve others. Possibly we commit some on occasion ourselves. Thus, in the first sense, a person has a right - that is, freedom - to do wrong: he may curse his Maker… - Charles Goodman, All these Rights, THE FREEMAN, 1/78.

FREEDOM, ROADS TO, SLAVERY, SELF-RULE: There are many roads to enslavement, only a few to mastery and freedom. - E. Reimer, School is Dead.

FREEDOM, RULE & SELF-RULE: Freedom demands that we do not tolerate any rule over us that is contrary to our nature, knowledge or will. - Kurt Zube.

FREEDOM, SACRIFICES & LIFE: The highest freedom of man is to sacrifice themselves. - Schneider. - That is all the freedom which politicians and bureaucrats are inclined to leave us. - I would rather say: The highest freedom of a man is to live his own life unhindered. - J.Z., 6.7.92.

FREEDOM, SALAMI TACTICS, GRADUALISM, ENCROACHMENTS, DECLINE: Most people do not worry about restrictions of their liberty until their windpipe is restricted, too, i.e. until they are threatened by death - and then it is usually too late. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, SATIRICAL DEFINITIONS: Instant gratification. - Poul Anderson, There Will Be Time. - However, there is a small truthful core even in that one. But calling it a freedom opportunity to immediately working towards full future liberty would be more accurate. Limited creative opportunities, with alternative media, are still quite legal - and vastly underutilized, in spite of the satisfactions they could provide. - J.Z., 9.1.75. & 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, SAYING NO: Freedom is the possibility to doubt, the opportunity to make mistakes, to search and to experiment. It is the option to answer "no!" to any authority, whether it be a literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social or even political authority. - Silone. - A mere protest is not enough to assure your liberty. You must be safe to say "no!" and must be free to act differently. - J.Z., 9.4.00.

FREEDOM, SECURITY & INTERDEPENDENCE, FREEDOM IN SOCIETY: As long as one man's freedom is not secure, no man's freedom is secure. - Chuck Brooks, 9/72. - There are numerous sayings expressing the same idea. It is exaggerated but does contain a core of truth. - J.Z. 12.4.00.

FREEDOM, SECURITY & SAFETY: It is often safer to be in chains than to be free. - Franz Kafka, The Castle, 1926. - Chains are not really tools that increase one's survival chances. Try to run or climb away from a tiger while in chains! The people "kept in chains" are not otherwise "secure" or safe either, unless one does not only confine one's definitions to enchaining life but exterminating it and considers a grave or mass grave as an "existence" in safety and security. - Kafka, too, gave instances of the treason of intellectuals towards the case of liberty. - The kind of old-age "security" provided by governments keeps them poor and prevents the competitive realization of old age insurance schemes that could turn ordinary productive people into multi-millionaires in their old age. How long will the welfare States survive once all old age pensioners and compulsory contributors to "social security" schemes become aware of this? - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, Seize freedom! - Free after Jerome Tuccille, Radical Libertarianism, 123.

FREEDOM, SELF, DEVELOPMENT: "… you have the freedom to be yourself, yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way." - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, p. 83. - Nothing stands in the way and can stand in the way? Why are so many freedom statements so far removed from daily experiences? - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, SELF-CONTROL & DISCIPLINE: The greatest blessing of democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. - Bernard Baruch. - All too few and limited liberties lead merely to democracy. Democracy does not produce liberties but merely tolerates some to some extent. All the remaining problems with democracies could be fast overcome if all freedoms were realizable, at least among all those who want them for themselves. - J.Z., 4.4.00.

FREEDOM, SELF-DIRECTION, INTERFERENCE, MOLESTATION: A man can be free to direct his own life only in so far as others are prevented from molesting and interfering with him. - L. T. Hobhouse, Liberalism, 1911, page 139.

FREEDOM, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY & INDIVIDUAL SOVEREIGNTY: Freedom exists there where every individual is sovereign over his body and mind and responsible only for those disturbances that he causes in the freedom spheres of others. - Source?

FREEDOM, SEXUAL FREEDOM & SENSUAL PLEASURES: Some people appreciate freedom only in form of sexual license & other sensual pleasures. - J.Z., n.d.

FREEDOM, SHARING, ALTRUISM & EGOISM, BROTHERHOOD, WELFARE STATE: True freedom is to share / All the chains our brothers wear, / And with heart and hand, to be / Earnest to make others free! - James Russell Lowell, Stanza on Freedom, 1843, 3. - Sharing chains would just multiply slaves. Cutting chains would reduce the number of slaves. Too many poets take too many liberties with freedom ideas. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM, SHEEP, MAN: Why give freedom to sheep? They only bleat. - Stirner. - Let them freely choose their favourite dependencies for themselves! - J.Z., 6.4.00.

FREEDOM, SIMPLE & HUMANE: Freedom is the simplest answer to our problems and the most humane. - Martin Gant, Queensland, in a letter to the editor.

FREEDOM, SLAVERY & VICE: For him who knows the compulsory vices of the slave, freedom is the possibility of virtue. - Michelet.

FREEDOM, SOCIETY & SECURITY: Freedom outside of society does not include the idea of security and security cannot be understood without freedom and without society. - Rivarol, in: Franzoesische Moralisten, 336.

FREEDOM, SOCIETY, CIVILIZATION, DECLINE & FALL: 1. The rise of civilized societies is the result of freedom, and freedom is a state of affairs stumbled upon and, in no instance, a premeditated, rational design. - 2. The explanations for societies in ascendancy have generally been false - the ascent has been attributed to organizational gadgetry rather than freedom. - 3. The decline and fall of civilized societies has usually been attributed to some organizational error rather than to over-organization. Rarely has a lack of freedom been assigned as the cause. - 4. To avert a decline and fall requires rational analysis and an understanding of what it is about freedom that accounts not only for ascendance but for the maintenance of the ascendant position. Be rational in this respect or look for the cycles of history to repeat themselves! - Leonard E. Read, Let Freedom Reign, 9/10.

FREEDOM, SOCIETY, RESTRAINTS, SELF-GOVERNMENT: So then, freedom in society is not the absence of restraints, but the management of one's affairs by a code of self-governance. The price of the benefits of cooperation is self-restraint. - Frank Chodorov, The Rise and Fall of Society, N.Y., Devin Adair, 1959, 163/64. - If this work is no longer in print then it should at least be offered on microfiche. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, SOLIDARITY & INDEPENDENCE: IV. Social solidarity is the first human law; freedom is the second law. Both laws interpenetrate and are inseparable from each other, thus constituting the very essence of humanity. Thus freedom is not the negation of solidarity; on the contrary, it represents the development of, and so to speak, the humanization of the latter. V. Freedom does not connote man's independence in relation to the immutable laws of nature and society. It is first of all man's ability gradually to emancipate himself from the oppression of the external physical world with the aid of knowledge and rational labor; and, further, it signifies man's right to dispose of himself and to act in conformity with his own views and convictions: a right opposed to the despotic and authoritarian claims of another man, a group, or class of people, or society as a whole. - Michael Bakunin, quoted in Horowitz, The Anarchists, p. 135.

FREEDOM, SOLUTION: Freedom is the solution. - Bob Howard, FREE ENTERPRISE, 2/76.

FREEDOM, SOLUTIONS & PROBLEMS: Name a problem which freedom or free men cannot solve! The problem lies mainly only in getting you to listen to or read the freedom solutions! - J.Z.

FREEDOM, SOLUTIONS & THE UNKNOWN: I have no grand solution to your problems, … What I have done is ponder a remark you made: that freedom lies in the unknown. - Poul Anderson, There Will Be Time, p 150. - To me it makes more sense to say: The solution to the unknown lies in freedom. - J.Z., 11/1/75.

FREEDOM, SOLUTIONS, ANSWERS, TACTICS, STRATEGIES, KEYS: Freedom means not only the absence of shackles but also offers the keys to rid us of them. - J.Z., 8/73. - Or files or hammers & chisels. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, SOLUTIONS, ANWERS, IDEAS, FREEDOM OF ACTION, EXPERIMENTAL FREEDOM: Freedom means your solution can be tried out voluntarily. - J.Z. 28.4.76.

FREEDOM, SOVEREIGNTY OF THE INDIVIDUAL & THE RIGHT TO THE FULL PRODUCT OF ONE'S LABOUR: Warren proclaimed the sovereignty of the individual instead of the sovereignty of the people. According to his convictions every man in himself presents a distinct and separate physical and psychical entity. Therefore each individual should be his own authority and his own governor. It follows that no one else would have the right to interfere with the shaping of his life. Where, however, the social relationships of men are concerned, they must, according to Warren's conception, rest on the just exchange of the products of their labor which will prevent any undue gain of one to the disadvantage of another. The prerequisite of this is that all natural wealth such as land, minerals, waterways, etc., should not be a monopoly of a small minority, but that access to the necessary raw materials should be open to every man under equal conditions insofar as these may be naturally produced without human labor. But every man is entitled to the full product of his own labor or to his share of what he produces together with others. This right to the full product of one's labor is for Warren the foundation of all personal freedom, the necessary condition of all social harmony… - Rudolf Rocker, Pioneers of American Freedom, 55.

FREEDOM, SPACE, THE UNIVERSE, EARTH: First let's liberate the Earth - then on to the Stars. We may be the only ones knowing of freedom in the entire universe. We mustn't let this spark go out or leave it to perish by man-made or natural catastrophies. - J.Z., 4.2.77 & 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, SPIRITUAL NATURE & MATERIALISM: Figgis believed that the notion of freedom is intimately connected to a belief in "the spiritual nature of men". The materialist doctrine that man is a complicated machine hardly has a place for the high doctrine of conscience, nor, therefore, for a solid conception of human freedom; why should too much fuss be made about civil liberty if the individual is simply a lump of matter moved here and there by a number of contending forces? - David Nicholls, The Pluralist State, 22/23.

FREEDOM, SPIRITUAL: … I know the only true freedom - freedom of the spirit. - Frank Perry, M.D., READER'S DIGEST, 1954, I Joined the Human Race. - To that extent we can be "free" even while put into a dungeon and some manage it even on a torture rack. But this is hardly all of freedom. - Medical doctors are supposed to be intelligent. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, SPORTS & GAMES: We have developed sports and games as a simulation of life, and they command a wide and profound interest from masses of men and women. But we are killing life itself by endeavours to control the outcomes of human activities. Now we have to return upon ourselves and ensure that life simulates sport and games, the outcomes of which we do not control but the playing of which is life itself. - H. S. Ferns, The Disease of Government, 125. - Statism is a drug addiction that by now even permeates sports and games. To that extent sports and games simulate life under statism. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, SPORTS & WEATHER: "… talk to me of freedom" not of sports, fashion, fine literature or the weather. - J.Z., 8.6.92, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, STANDARD OF LIVING, PROSPERITY, IDEAS, PROGRESS: "… the freer the society, the greater the outpouring of ideas and products. - Ridgway K. Foley Jr., THE FREEMAN, 4/73.

FREEDOM, STARVATION & ABUNDANCE: "Freedom to starve". "… the 'freedom-to-starve' argument rests on a basic confusion of 'freedom' with 'abundance of exchangeable goods'. The two must be kept conceptually distinct. Freedom is meaningfully definable only as absence of interpersonal restrictions. Robinson Crusoe on the desert island is absolutely free, since there is no other person to hinder him. But he is not necessarily living an abundant life; indeed, he is likely to be constantly on the verge of starvation. … Yet there is an important connection between the two, for we have seen that a free market tends to lead to abundance for all its participants, and we shall see below that violent intervention in the market and a hegemonic society tend to lead to general poverty. That a person is 'free to starve' is therefore not a condemnation of the free market but a simple fact of nature. - Murray N. Rothbard, Man, Economy, and State, p. 290.

FREEDOM, STARVATION, POVERTY, WEALTH: Better starve free than be a fat slave. - Aesop, The Dog and the Wolf, Fables, 6^th c. B.C.?, tr. Joseph Jacobs. - Fat men are more common among the free than among the slaves. - J.Z., 20.11.85. - Just look at the obesity statistics in the somewhat developed countries. - J.Z., 17.4.00.

FREEDOM, STATE, MONOPOLIES, NATIONALIZATION, TOTALITARIANISM: "… there is hardly a surer way to lose all freedom than to make the State the monopolistic owner, employer & feeder." - Leopold Schwarzschild, Primer of the Coming World, 296.

FREEDOM, STATISM, GOVERNMENTS, FREEDOM FIGHTERS, NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE, LIBERTY, INDIVIDUALS RIGHTS & LIBERTIES, IDEOLOGIES, PREJUDICES: I have been thinking in a desultory way about civil liberty lately. I doubt that one in 100,000 of us has anything remotely like the conception of it that you and I have. I believe that for the immense majority of people liberty means only the system and the administrators they are used to. What do you think of that idea? - For instance, the Scots clansmen had their feudal or semifeudal chieftains who certainly pushed them around plenty enough, and made them sweat. The English came and ran out the chiefs, and took over the job of pushing the clansmen around exactly as before; and then the clansmen put up a tremendous roar about losing their liberties, which, in your view and mine they never had. Isn't it so? I don't know but what (J.Z.: that?) the great libertarian movements might profitably be examined in the light of this notion. I know it must have been dam' disagreeable to the Gauls to have le vieux César Brisetout busting in on them, and all that; and as a matter of sentiment I'm in favour of Arminius, Ambiorix, Ariovistus, Vercingetorix, & Co.; but what I should like to know is, how much actual liberty did the Gauls lose? Or again today, if King George or Hirohito or any one else conquered us, ran Franklin and his banditti into the Potomac and put us under the identical regime that we are now under, we would raise a frightful row about the loss of our liberties, when actually we were losing none. - This idea seems to reach pretty far in one direction at least. If people grow up in adjustment to a system and are told that they have their liberties under it, the natural thing would be for them to think they have, for they would have nothing to true the statement up by, and it would not occur to them to test the statement by an exercise of imagination. - A. J. Nock, to Paul Palmer, January 31, 1944. - Panarchies would demonstrate successful alternative and much more free and prosperous models almost everywhere. - J.Z., 25.4.00.

FREEDOM, STRUGGLE, EASE & DEGENERATION: Freedom degenerates unless it has to struggle in its own defence. - Lord Action. - Freedom itself does not degenerate, no matter how old it is and how often it has been used or left unused. Those who are free, or somewhat free, may or may not degenerate. If people under full freedom would degenerate remains to be seen. I guess even under freedom some people would. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM, SUCCESS & AFFLUENCE: Dean Inge's, "Nothing fails like success", comes to mind. Two or three generations of affluence - temporary in historical terms - have the superficial earmarks of success. Most of those who live so affluently in these periods become insensitive to needs, particularly to a need for any more freedom than exists in their experience. Freedom fails to prevail at the hands of these "successes." - It takes intellectual calisthenics for one of these "successes" to recognize his need for freedom… - Leonard E. Read, Let Freedom Reign, 119/120. - Add to this that at least a part of their "successes" has been due to legal monopolies, privileges or loopholes, which tend to turn these people into statists or advocates of a mixed economy. Moreover, they tend to ascribe their successes to their own cleverness rather than to whatever remains still of economic liberties. - J.Z., 14.4.00.

FREEDOM, SUCCESS & BURDEN: Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. - Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951, 2.5.26. - Under freedom, for all who want it, even a lazy numbskull, but one able and willing to follow constructive orders, will enjoy a higher standard of living and more choice for his earnings than he otherwise could. - J.Z., 20.11.85 & 17.4.00.

FREEDOM, SUPPRESSED & REGAINED: Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with deeper fangs than freedom never endangered. - Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Officiis, 44 B.C., 2.7.24. - Shouldn't all doubts about liberty have been fully settled by sufficient discussion after 2,000 years? Apparently, sufficient discussion has still not taken place! - J.Z., 15.4.00.

FREEDOM, SURVIVAL, PROGRESS & STATISM: Never before, he imagined, had humanity been so completely frivolous about its own survival. In a sort of gargantuan joke on everybody, the fabric of a stable world society was ripped and torn on every hand, reason and restraint were tossed to the wind, decency and truth were hurled into history's waste can, things that were, declared to be things that were not, things that were not, solemnly hailed as things that were. "Freedom!" they cried, and destroyed freedom in its name. "Progress!" they shouted, and scurried back as fast as they could scramble to the dark night of dictatorship and the death of the mind. - Allen Drury, A Shade of Difference.

FREEDOM, SYSTEMS, TRUST: Freedom is the only system we can trust. - J.Z., 1/9/75.

FREEDOM, TAKE IT OR FIGHT FOR IT: Not only fight for liberty but take it, too - at every opportunity. - Stanley Morgan, Come Again, Courier, p. 168.

FREEDOM, TAKE IT: Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it. - Malcolm X. - Shop lifters and plunderers would agree with the last part. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, TAKEN ONLY AS A LAST RESORT: If we could gather all the facts, I believe that every instance of freedom has come about as a last resort. Authoritarians had tried everything in the way of controlling the creative actions of men; everything had failed and their bag of tricks was exhausted. What to do when such a dead end is reached? Indeed, what could be done in ruling creative actions? Nothing! And there stood the citizens free to act creatively as they pleased. - Leonard E. Read, Let Freedom Reign, 12. - I wish that it had always been the case that one or the other or even several radical liberties were suddenly freed from restraints. But much more frequent was just some relaxation of restraints that obviously did no longer work and caused some restraints. And then the still remaining problems, due to the remaining restraints, were generally ascribed to the introduction of limited liberties, so that these were soon on their way out again. People who accept tinkering with liberties put up with further tinkerings and even the complete suppression of any particular liberty. But let any liberty be radically introduced and they do become attached to it, rather fast. I remember in Australia the abolition of licence fees for radio and TV broadcast reception. They were used to support of the numerous stations of the ABC, all government-run stations, which did not broadcast advertisements. Once the licence for listeners was abolished then it could not longer be re-introduced without causing a rebellion. I remember otherwise politically quite apathetic workmates threatening to go on a tax strike or general strike, getting very angry at the mere suggestion that these licence fees might be reintroduced. The politicians, realizing how many votes they would lose thus, dropped the attempt. In the introduction of freedom one can never be too radical - at least within volunteer communities. - J.Z., 14.4.00.

FREEDOM, TALENTS & ABILITY: Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an unknown burden. - Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951. - Is being putty or a puppet in the hands of others to be preferred? - J.Z., 26.8.85. - Even the least talented and able can earn more under freedom than he can under despotism. - However, there is some truth in what Hoffer says - under conditions of monetary despotism. In that case only the talented has a good chance to be employed or become an independent contractor. Under that condition the limited abilities of others will suffer from frequent unemployment or low wages. They will be the last to be hired and the first to be fired and also the ones to be paid least. Under full freedom they will still be paid least but they could be sure of full employment and a relatively high standard of living - compared with people like them, living under some or the other form of economic despotism. - All the quotes on liberty ought to be corrected as far as necessary and possible. Too many of them are wrong or omit too much. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, TALK & ACTION: There are few who act for freedom, and the actors for freedom are oppressed by the talkers and verbal professors of freedom. - Gerard Winstanley, Law of Freedom, 1652. - He talks under the wrongful premise that full freedom of action already exists. But is correct only insofar as not even all of the remaining freedom of action opportunities are fully taken up nor those involving only small risks and some courage. Territorial governments have left us many opportunities to work productively towards their abolition - but we have not yet taken them up to a sufficient extent. E.g.: microfiche, floppy disks and CD-ROMs for the cheap and permanent publication of all freedom writings. - J.Z., 6.4.89, 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, TAXES AND THE LAW: In paying his taxes or obeying the law the citizen is regulated rather than free. - Henry M. Magid, ENGLISH POLITICAL PLURALISM, 65.

FREEDOM, TAXES & VOTING: Only those who pay direct taxes should be allowed to vote and there should be only direct taxes. Otherwise large scale abuses are impossible. The present system amounts, as J. St. Mill said to: "allowing them to put their hands into other people's pockets for any purpose which they think fit to call a public one."

FREEDOM, TEMPER AND PASSIONS: It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. - Edmund Burke. - So, according to him, one can't be passionately for freedom and injustice and suppression should never upset one's temper. He forgot his youthful essay on natural liberty and opposed Thomas Paine's defence of human rights. He also forgot that rulers are as a rule passionately addicted to their powers and their abuse. - J.Z., 13.4.00.

FREEDOM, TEMPER, SELF-CONTROL, EMPLOYEES: No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus.

FREEDOM, THEORY & PRACTICE: What freedom means in practice we understand well enough. But what its nature is, theoretically, we cannot even think about understanding it without arriving at contradictions. - Kant. - Alas, most people do not even know what all liberties mean in practice. Many haven't even heard about many liberties, far less have they arrived at a sound theoretical judgment for all of them. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, THEORY & PRACTICE: Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. - Will Rogers. - Where full freedom is really practised - even when not verbalized and speechified, it works better than any conceivable alternative could. - J.Z., 9.7.92. What most people commonly call freedom freedom isn't full freedom. E.g., it does not include individual secessionism, full monetary freedom, full free trade and a wide-spread practice of sensible self-management or cooperation in production. - J.Z., 8.4.00.

FREEDOM, THINK, DECISIONS, RESPONSIBILITY: Freedom means you've got to think for yourself, make your own decisions, and take responsibility for your own actions. - Mark Tier, THE AUSTRALIAN, 12/10/74.

FREEDOM, THOUGHT & ACTION: … freedom … exists when people can think and act for themselves. - H. J. Ehrlich et al, Reinventing Anarchy, 31.

FREEDOM, THREATS & FREE MEN: Towards free men threats are ineffective. - Cicero. - Yes, if they are ineffective threats. But if, e.g., your girlfriend, mother, father, wife or child are taken hostage … ? Free men ought to be armed, organized and trained in the defence of their liberties, with the special tactics, strategies and policies of liberty. Then they would constitute superior military power in most instances and would have not have to be afraid of defeat. - J.Z., n.d. & 8.4.90.

FREEDOM, THROUGH FREEDOM STEPS: The only way to freedom is BY freedom. - Ken Knudsen in THE VOLUNTARYIST, No. 6.

FREEDOM, TIES, RESTRICTIONS, REGULATIONS, LAWS, COERCION, CHAINS: Tie two birds together &, although they have 4 wings, they cannot fly. - From film: The Circle of Iron.

FREEDOM, TIMING, PLACE, OPPORTUNITY: It is always "the day, the hour and the moment" for freedom. - J.Z., 8.6.92, quoting: Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson, Starchild, 5.

FREEDOM, TOLERANCE & LIBERTY, PANARCHISM: Every man must get to heave his own way. - Frederick the Great. - Every man must get to HIS heaven IN his own way. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, TOLERANCE, FREEDOM OF ACTION & PANARCHISM: I seek no quarrel with those whose conviction it is that individual freedom is a burden from which they would be relieved. I do not, however, wish them to relieve me of my freedom because they believe that my freedom should seem onerous to me. - Ray L. Colvard, THE FREEMAN, 1/73.

FREEDOM, TOLERANCE, PANARCHISM, CHOICE, INSTITUTIONS: Let us rather recognize that people are free - in the political sense - when they live under institutions they prefer, no matter what those institutions are. - J. O. Y. Gasset, Concord & Liberty, 52. - Alas, like most others, G. understood under "people" only the collective, more precisely the majority, not the individuals. Thus he would allow "the people" to force institutions and laws upon dissenting individuals and majorities. - J. Z., 14.4.00.

FREEDOM, TOLERANCE, TEST, DISSENT, FREEDOM OF ACTION & PANARCHISM: The true test of one's commitment to individual freedom, wrote economist Walter Williams in a recent column for Heritage Features Syndicate, "is when you allow others to voluntarily do those things which you don't like."- Robert Poole, Jr. & Christine Dorffi, in REASON, 9/81, p.18.

FREEDOM, TOTAL FREEDOM & SCIENTOLOGY: "What total freedom means and how SCIENTOLOGISTS achieve it."- From a recent Scientology leaflet. - There are many more wrong than rightful remarks on liberty. I have not the patience to collect and respond to all of them which come my way. The Church of Scientology seems to make so much money of this faith that it could keep me on the mailing list for over 25 years - in spite of several requests to take me off it. Perhaps I should not blame it, for I have pushed the freedom of expression and information option offered by microfiche self-publishing upon demand, for almost as long - against ignorance, indifference and prejudice among libertarians and anarchists regarding this medium - and it has certainly not been a financial success, either. But I would rather lose some money in trying to spread some truths about liberties than getting rich by spreading some lies about it. - J.Z., 18.4.00.

FREEDOM, TOTAL FREEDOM: I have used the term "total freedom". It must be understood that freedom does not and cannot include actions which impair another's freedom. Freedom, except in its psychological sense, is a social term. Socially speaking, freedom has a place in our vocabulary only as it describes a felicitous relationship of man to man. Therefore, freedom is not and cannot be synonymous with unrestrained action. To do as one pleases, is it infringes upon the freedom of another, is not freedom at all - it's tyranny. It is impossible for freedom to be composed of freedom negations. Total freedom, then, as relating to society and government, is the ideal to be sought. This is a goal to be kept uppermost in mind, and any deviations from it are to be disapproved. - Leonard E. Read, Elements of Libertarian Leadership, 25. - Again, he omitted the freedom to be unfree, as an individual choice, as long as one can stand it. - J.Z., 14.4.00.

FREEDOM, TOTAL, ABSOLUTE: Total freedom: Unknown, feared - & absolutely necessary. - Lorraina M. Valencia, in THE PHOENIX GAZETTE, 19 Jan. 82 & TC125p98.

FREEDOM, TOTALITARIANISM, PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM: It is in vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. - Mises, Omnipotent Government, 14. - To the extent that he still advocated e.g. conscription and a limited government - he wasn't! Nor was he in favour of full monetary freedom. - J.Z.

FREEDOM, TRADE, HARMONY, PEACE: To repeat, when liberty prevails, all are free to bring things and people into workable combinations to the betterment of all, the policeman included. - Leonard E. Read, The Love of Liberty, 85.

FREEDOM, TRUST, ACCEPTANCE & FAITH: Liberty calls to us again. We must follow her fully; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or she will not stay. - Henry George.

FREEDOM, TRUTH, VIRTUE, FORCE, IMPOSITIONS, COMPUSION: A philosophy based on the right of maximum freedom from constraint begins by denying the right of any man to impose truth or virtue upon another. - Everett Reimer, School is Dead, 90.

FREEDOM, TRY: Let us try freedom. - Charles A. LaDow, THE FREEMAN, 11/74.

FREEDOM, TYRANNY & SLAVERY: When liberty is contrasted with tyranny, I find that I must seek a condition of freedom and not merely freedom for myself. Thus, in an effort to understand the full implications of freedom, it must be recognized that freedom describes a human condition in which there is no tyranny at all. It is tyranny that opposes liberty, not slavery. The slave is merely the victim of another's tyranny and the product of lost liberty. Without tyranny, there could be neither tyranny nor slavery. When this is grasped, freedom is seen as a condition in which no one imposes tyranny on anyone. - Robert LeFevre, The Libertarian, p. 22.

FREEDOM, TYRANNY, FREEDOM OF ACTION & EQUAL FREEDOM: The most evil tyrant imaginable, whose goal is to extinguish human liberty, does not want impediments placed between himself and his goal; he wants to be free to wield power unconditionally. Everyone, in short, desires his own freedom; but not everyone is seriously concerned that all other persons have as much freedom of action as he has. Very few people, as a matter of fact, favor equal freedom - a social condition of maximum freedom of action for everyone. And there's the rub! Freedom for yourself is a biological urge; the will to equal freedom for everyone stems from a more complex fact of our nature. - E. Opitz, THE FREEMAN, 5/75.

FREEDOM, UNITY & EQUALITY: Freedom rather than unity or equality! - J.Z., 5.10.92, 9.4.00.

FREEDOM, UNITY, UNIONISM: "… freedom and union…" Gustav Landauer, in: Die Revolution, commenting on Kropotkin's Mutual Aid. - I would rather speak of "freedom and free association"! This requires also the freedom for individuals to disassociate themselves or to secede, e.g. from territorially unified nation states and from any kind of trade union. - Freedom in diversity, rather than lack of individual and minority liberties under "unity". - J.Z., 7.4.91, 17.4.00. - Quoted from Rocker, N.&C, 488.

FREEDOM, UNLIMITED: Everything that limits us we have to put aside? - Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, p. 76. - If we were to include all others, who are not aggressive, within this "us", then it would make sense. - Naturally, we should not consider the laws of nature as limits upon the liberty that should exist between human beings. Nor could we put them aside. - J.Z., 16.4.00.

FREEDOM, UNPOPULARITY: The whole world is against us & only because we want to be free. - From film: Madame.

FREEDOM, UNREAL, EXPERIENCE, OUT OF SIGHT: Freedom is unreal for most - because they are not free. - J.Z., 2/75.

FREEDOM, USE & NON-USE OF - : Freedom is a good that grows by its use and diminishes by non-use. - Carl Friedrich von Weizaecker. (Freiheit ist ein Gut, das durch Gebrauch waechst, durch Nichtgebrauch dahinschwindet.) - Freedom certainly needs education, training and practice to realize more and finally all of its potential. - Refugees from Russia often thought, at least for a while, that there was too much freedom in the U.S.A., while anarchists and libertarians in the U.S.A. complained that too little freedom was left. - J.Z., 9.4.00.

FREEDOM, USE IT, AS FAR AS POSSIBLE AND AVAILABLE, TO ACHIEVE FULL FREEDOM: The political method is wrong. It goes against the basic principle of libertarianism. The ends don't justify the means. We cannot achieve by using coercion. If we want freedom, we must use it to achieve it. - Gleen, Hodgson, in LEFEVRE'S JOURNAL, Summer 75. - There is also freedom to resist, to defend oneself, to protect one's property, to commit tyrannicide, to engage in rightful revolutions. The most radical among the non-violent methods are individual and group secessionism, combined with voluntary associationism to form alternative institutions like exterritorially full autonomous communities. By such means force might be altogether avoided or its rightful use minimized. - J.Z., 11.4.00.

FREEDOM, USE THE REMAINING LIBERTIES, FREEDOM AMONG THE UNFREE: To be free in an unfree world isn't nearly as unrealistic as it might seem at first glance. After all, it's commonly assumed that there can be free nations in a world that contains enslaved nations. Why, then, can't there be free states within a nation that isn't free? Or free towns within an unfree state? - - Most important, why can't there be free individuals within unfree towns, states, or nations? - Freedom IS possible, and you can have it - if that's what you really want. - I can't know which specific freedom you crave most - freedom from social restrictions, family problems, high taxes, bad relationships, the treadmill, go