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Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Ideas About Liberty Mustafa Akyol, Liberty was Islam's First Call (October 2021)

This month's Liberty Matters is another in our occasional series in which we ask notable thought leaders what liberty means to them. In this edition, Mustafa Akyol reflects on the relationship between liberty and Islam, posing some critical questions about Islam's history which to date have been little considered- by Muslims or others. For example, was the marriage between Islam and the state u...

Explore the OLL Collection: Quotations About Liberty and Power Kant believed that citizens must give their free consent via their representatives to every separate declaration of war (1790)

The German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) argued that because the lives and property of a nation’s citizens were used in fighting a war they had the right to give their free consent via their political representatives to every separate declaration of war:

Explore the OLL Collection: Images of Liberty and Power Washington and Napoleon in their Study

Introduction There are some striking parallels in the lives of George Washington (1732-1799) and Napoléon Bonaparte (1769-1821): both were military leaders who helped their countries during a revolution and both came to power as head of a republic which had shaken off the shackles of monarchy. But whereas Washington was content to return to civilian life and promote the development of the n...