Freedom Matters

LIBERTY. It's a simple idea, but it's also the linchpin of a complex system of values and practices: justice, prosperity, responsibility, toleration, cooperation, and peace. Many people believe that liberty is the core political value of modern civilization itself, the one that gives substance and form to all the other values of social life. They're called libertarians.

Learn more about this philosophy at http://www.libertarianism.org/

Video produced by Evan Banks and narrated by Leigh Harrington.

Source: Libertarianism.org YouTube channel. Translated by Sinisa Domic. Freedom and Prosperity TV.

Transcript:

Freedom matters.

Freedom has lifted hundreds of millions of people from poverty, and inspired oppressed people's struggle for human rights.

Freedom means directing our own lives and realizing remarkable tomorrows. Libertarianism is the philosophy of freedom.

Libertarians demand that we respect the rights of individuals. And they recognize that by doing so we respect their dignity.

Securing individual rights is the purpose of government. But government can also threaten our rights.

Libertarians would limit government to protecting life, liberty and property. Limiting government to these tasks frees us to experiment, innovate, and prosper.

Libertarianism is the philosophy to freedom. One that places liberty at the center of the human experience.

Because freedom matters.