individual liberty

noun

1. the liberty of an individual to exercise freely those rights generally accepted as being outside of governmental control.

Example Sentences

Mill is rightly celebrated as one of history’s most eloquent champions of individual liberty.

From Nautilus

Detractors claim that requiring such documentation infringes on individual liberties.

From Time

On Tuesday, she gave a friendly interview to Fox News, emphasizing her support for “strong national defense, strong borders, life and individual liberty,” but throwing no red meat.

From Washington Post

Years later, their words, particularly with respect to individual liberties, would shape his.

From Ozy

Signal’s value system aligns neatly with the belief, popular in Silicon Valley’s early days, that encryption is the sole key to individual liberty in a world where authorities will use technology to further their inevitably authoritarian goals.

From Time

Originally—and up until fairly recently—the First Amendment was understood to be a shield protecting individual liberty.

From The Daily Beast

The answer was to ensure that individual liberty was not trumped by religion or government or corporations.

From The Daily Beast

Obamacare represents an “assault on individual liberty,” asserts Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution.

From The Daily Beast

Is the goal merely an end to Israeli control over Palestinian lives or is it individual liberty and accountable government.

From The Daily Beast

It can be pressed into service as an instrument of our commitment to individual liberty.

From The Daily Beast

It does not mean doing away with individual liberty and reducing all to a dead level.

From Project Gutenberg

Factory laws, public health laws, education laws—all denounced as "interferences with individual liberty."

From Project Gutenberg

Just as the Anarchist sets up an abstract idea of individual liberty as his ideal, so he sets up an abstract idea of tyranny.

From Project Gutenberg

Laws are limitations of individual liberty set by society and therefore they are tyrannical.

From Project Gutenberg

That Gospel enjoins obedience to righteous law as the guaranty of individual liberty.

From Project Gutenberg