Without looking on the internet for answers, what do you think the difference is between Liberty and Freedom?
my corner of nowhere particular
Without looking on the internet for answers, what do you think the difference is between Liberty and Freedom?
Where you stand.
You know I think they’re totally synonymous. Both “liberty” and “freedom” are the ability to act how you see fit, unrestrained. I feel the Latin root liber is translated as “free”. I think the English words “freedom, free” are from some Germanic root (the word is die Freiheit, frei in German, which generally lacks Latin roots).
So, pretty much word origin.
Amirite??
One is a bell in PA, the other a statue in NY.
http://m-w.com/dictionary/freedom Has a little spiel that lightly touches on a lexical difference (that I don’t really agree with). If you’re interested.