The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible - Bastiat Institute

x Jonathan’s Guiding Principles
The Individual is Sovereign
Each individual is the sole owner of his or her life, and of the fruits
of his or her efforts.
An individual may not initiate the use of force or fraud against
another, but may strongly resist the use of force.
Every man has freedom to do all that he wills,
provided he infringes not on the equal freedom of others.
Herbert Spencer 1851
Implications
• Freedom of speech, association, contract, and movement.
• Recognition of the supreme rights of the individual.
• Respect for property rights (life/possession/space).
• Love for life, freedom, and the pursuit of happiness.
• Limits on the powers of groups, governments, and gangsters.
• Rights to resist force, theft, and enslavement of any kind.
• Individual responsibility.
The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in
our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede
their efforts to obtain it.
John Stuart Mill, 1859
For Jonathan Gullible’s philosophy in fl ash
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