Your liberty is a condition of your actions, marked by the absence of laws and rules imposed on you by other people that restrict, under the sanctions of force and punishment, your capacity to make your own choices. The organization of people imposing these laws is the State.
Morality, or what one regards as right and wrong, does not enter these definitions and does not have to enter the discussion. Morality is your personal choice because one of your choices is deciding for yourself what acts are wrongful and another choice is deciding whether to act wrongfully or not.If you have ever tried to put pen to paper and define "liberty", you might have found the attempt to be very challenging. Michael Rozeff takes a stab at it here and we think he gave us some thought-provoking concepts on the interactions between the state and the individual.
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