Liberalism Quotes

Mill on individualism (2 quotes)

“Over the mind and body the individual is sovereign”

“individuals are the best judges of their own interests!

Locke on Individualism

“The most precious of all possessions is power over ourselves”

Mill on why education is important

allows for things to “be considered from various minds and a variety of points of view”

Mills harm principle

“the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised…is to prevent harm”

Isaiah Berlin on negative liberty

“freedom from” rather than “freedom to”

Mill and Liberty

“absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects”

Locke on freedom and the state

“where there is no law there is no freedom”

Paine and state

“a necessary evil”

Locke on state necessity

“wherever law ends, tyranny begins”

Locke on the states affect on liberty

“I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my liberty, would not when he had me in his power, take away everything else”

Locke on Government by consent

“the people cannot delegate the government anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves”

Locke on tyranny of the majority

“puts himself under an obligation to everyone of that society to submit to the determination of the majority”

Rawls on the state and equality

“there should be equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed”

Rawls, the state and justice

“justice is the first virtue of social institutions”

Locke and the property

by “mixing his labour” with the natural world a person transforms it and creates private property

Locke and Reason

“Reason must be our last judge and guide in anything”