Thomas Hobbes Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"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."

by:	Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) English philosopher, political theorist
Source:	Leviathan, 1651
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Categories:	Freedom, Individualism, Liberty, Power
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Very nicely put.Very encouraging. -- KS 4
I am free, and our government is my hinderance. -- Joe, Rochester, MI 4
Freedom is a state of spiritual, moral, mental and emotional being such as can be realized only under the aegis and tutelage of Virtue. "Freedom" experienced in the absence of Virtue is a delusion. -- Patrick Henry, Red Hill 4
-- jim k, Austin
A good start at describing freedom. Freedom is an inherent state of being; the expression thereof can be hindered as Joe said above. A legal measurement of liberty realized will illuminate proportionally the free beings expression. -- Mike, Norwalk 4
As good as it gets. -- E Archer, NYC 3
A government of, by and for people is antithetical to a government of nature's law. The individual sovereign with acknowledged inalienable rights and liberty at the "laws of nature and of nature's God" (Declaration of Independence) is enslaved by totalitarianism's tyranny, despostism and usurpations (i.e., compelled compliance, government licenses, victimless crimes, larceny with immunity {2nd plank of the communist manifesto, funny money, confiscations, etc.}, and a lack of perfected allodium. -- Mike, Norwalk 1