We wish to work in total freedom.
The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.
And now that the legislators and do gooders have futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems. And try liberty …
A liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws.
Locke and most others rejected this notion of freedom, seeing it in the modern sense of anarchy.
Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like.
Liberty is not enough.
In their rules there was only one clause: Do what you will.
I literally just do whatever I want to do.
Reason cannot desire for man any condition other than that in which not only every individual enjoys the most absolute, unbounded freedom to develop himself out of himself, in true individuality, but in which physical nature, as well, need receive no other shaping by human hands than that which is given to her voluntarily by each individual, according to the measure of his wants and his inclinations, restricted only by the limits of his energy and his rights.
He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all