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Primacy of the individual over the collective
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"Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions and will receive praise or blame for them. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable."
menu_book The Constitution of Liberty
View Full Quote"It is therefore the inhabitants of countries who allow themselves to be coerced who are unnatural, since freedom is their natural state; and their slavery is born of their own fault, not of any lack of courage, but rather of some scorn of their natural condition and some unaccountable failure of good sense."
menu_book Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
View Full Quote"There are indeed only two possible visions of society and its organization: a liberal vision and a constructivist one."
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Democracy in America
A profound analysis of American democratic society and its implications for the future of democracy, exploring the nature of equality, individualis...
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Written around 1549 by the young French magistrate Étienne de La Boétie and first published posthumously in 1576, this founding text of libertarian...
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A systematic and uncompromising defence of classical liberalism, arguing that all social questions resolve into one fundamental choice between a li...
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