Liberty
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Liberty is the state of being free within society from restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. The concept of liberty can vary depending on perspective an
Liberty Enlightening the World (known as the Statue of Liberty), by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, was donated to the US by France in 1886 as an artistic personification of liberty.
John Stuart Mill
Bust of Aristotle
In French Liberty. British Slavery (1792), James Gillray caricatured French "liberty" as the opportunity to starve and British "slavery" as bloated complaints about taxation.
Libertarianism
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Libertarianism is a political philosophy that holds liberty and personal sovereignty as primary values. Many libertarians believe that the concept of freedom is in accord with the non-aggression princ
Liberty
…atheism, and by the Left for defending free enterprise and the rights of the individual over the collective. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica, libertarians hold liberty as their primary political value. Their approach to implementing liberty involves opposing any governmental coercion, aside from that which…
Thomas Paine, whose theory of property showed a libertarian concern with the unequal distribution of resources under statism
Sébastien Faure, prominent French theorist of libertarian communism as well as atheist and freethought militant
Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist theorist and proponent of libertarian municipalism and communalism
Former congressman Ron Paul, a self-described libertarian, whose presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012 garnered significant support from youth and libertarian Republicans