What Milei said about freedom

This means that first He makes us free; and only then do responsibilities come: you shall not murder, the life of each one is inviolable; you shall not steal, what each person creates with their work belongs to them; you shall not bear false witness, the pledged word sustains the contract and trust between people; you shall not covet, no one has the right over what belongs to another. That is why the best definition of liberalism is the one coined by Alberto Benegas Lynch (son), which states that it is the unrestricted respect for the life project of others based on the principle of non-aggression and in defense of the right to life, liberty, and property.

Because it encompasses both freedom and the necessary responsibilities for freedom to be fruitful and not simply license.

For that reason, these values are at the heart of the moral compass of this State policy that shapes the agenda of this Government. Every measure we take starts from justice and respect for the natural right to life, liberty, and property. These notions that define who we are make our civilization unique, inherited from the Holy Scriptures. For us, those values are non-negotiable, they are an essential part of our identity and we will defend them wherever attempts are made to undermine the foundations of our societies, both from internal and external enemies.

That is to say, you could go against freedom, or even against life itself, put it in a law; that can make it legal, but it remains illegitimate.

In fact, in natural law, the two main rights are to liberty and to life. In fact, property is a derived right from John Locke. But if you look at the essence of John Locke, John Locke is also an heir of the Stoics; that is, he is an heir of the Roman philosophers, whose thoughts derive from Greek philosophers.

So, we are rebuilding the foundations of Argentina so that our youth want to stay in the country. And, having said all this, I also greatly value Spain as a libertarian liberal, and the reason is simple: many thinkers very close to my heart like Hayek, Rothbard, Jesús Huerta de Soto consider Spain to be the cradle of political liberalism, an ideology aimed at giving freedom to the world and a continuation of that great civilizational feat that was the discovery of America with liberalism, liberty itself becomes a name and supreme banner.

This is a very interesting point because one of the things Murray Rothbard discovered is that the true beginnings of liberalism were in Salamanca, in the School of Salamanca exactly, or what we also know as the Scholastics, and it is also interesting because one of the most renowned and important Argentine patriots in our history, Manuel Belgrano, actually studied at the School of Salamanca. So, we indeed have reasons to celebrate Spain as the cradle of liberalism.

Therefore, it is an honor-bound debt you have with your own blood to kick out the socialists because you are the cradle of liberalism.

In this sense, let’s do a bit of history: the word liberal, as a political label, is born in the Cortes of Cádiz, at the beginning of the 19th century. The word liberal designated the defenders of individual freedoms against the absolutists. The latter thought that everything should be created at the desire of the monarch, that is to say, the State. The absolutists considered that human beings had no innate rights but that the rights of subjects are granted as a gift by the political power.

This, which may seem like a minor issue at the time you have to make decisions, is present all the time. In another sense, also, another fundamental element of our Western values, the foundations, is Roman law. That is to say, there is nothing more inspiring than Ulpian and the construction of Roman law and, above all, the construction of natural law.

That is why we also repeatedly quote the phrase in which Professor Alberto Venegas Lynch Jr. defines liberalism because that frames our position, and it is: 'liberalism is the unrestricted respect for the life project of others, based on the principle of non-aggression, in defense of the right to life, liberty, and property.' Therefore, when I face the Cabinet, when I face my Ministers, when I outline where I want to go, I set the north, but at the same time, I outline restrictions on what instruments not to use.

A Nation with which we share a love for the ideas of freedom and with whose Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, we are united by a personal fraternity and a feeling of mutual admiration. It is also a pleasure to be a part of a new edition of CPAC, endless thanks to its organizers for the invitations and for the privilege of once again addressing an audience eager to take the cultural battle throughout the world. I consider it of vital importance to keep this flame alive; I refer to the ideas of freedom, which at all times there are those who are trying to extinguish, events like this contribute to keep this fire burning and serve as a guide for all men in the world.

Finally, these rights are complemented by the principle of non-aggression, which establishes that no human being has the right to exercise aggression of any kind against another human being, which includes not only physical aggression but also all forms of coercion, force, and opposition under threat of use of force. Thus we define liberalism, according to Professor Alberto Benegas Lynch (son), as 'the unrestricted respect for the life project of others, based on the principle of non-aggression and in defense of the right to life, liberty, and property, whose institutions are private property, free markets free from state intervention, competition understood as free entry and exit, the division of labor, and social cooperation.'

That is: by returning to the ideas of freedom. May God bless the West. May the forces of heaven accompany us. And ¡viva la libertad, carajo! (long live freedom, damn it!) Thank you very much.

And that can only be guaranteed through the infinite expansion of the aberrant state. In other words, from the concept of freedom as fundamental protection of the individual against the intervention of the tyrant, we moved to the concept of liberation through state intervention. On this basis, wokism was built, a regime of thought uniformity, supported by different institutions whose purpose is to penalize dissent; feminism, diversity, inclusion, equity, immigration, abortion, environmentalism, and gender ideology, among others, are heads of the same creature whose end is to justify the advance of the state by appropriating and distorting noble causes.

We believe in the defense of the life of all; we believe in the defense of the property of all; we believe in the freedom of expression for all; we believe in the freedom of worship for all; we believe in the freedom of trade for all, and we believe in limited governments, all of them.

And just as what happens in one country quickly impacts others in these times, we believe that all peoples must live free from tyranny and oppression, whether that takes the form of political oppression, economic slavery, or religious fanaticism. This fundamental idea must not remain mere words; it must be supported by actions, diplomatically, economically, and materially, through the combined strength of all countries that defend freedom.

In short, the message is the following: do not let socialism advance, do not endorse regulation, do not endorse the idea of market failures, do not allow the advancement of the murderous agenda and do not be swayed by the siren songs of social justice; I come from a country that bought all those stupid ideas and from being one of the richest countries in the world it is now in 140th place. Therefore, do not give up your freedom, fight for your freedom, because if you do not fight for freedom they will lead you to misery.

Now, to understand what we come to defend, it is important to define what we mean when we talk about libertarianism. To define it, I revisit the words of the greatest proponent of the ideas of liberty in Argentina, Professor Alberto Benegas Lynch (h), who says: “libertarianism is the unrestricted respect for the life project of others, based on the principle of non-aggression, in defense of the right to life, liberty, and property, whose fundamental institutions are private property, free markets without state intervention, free competition, the division of labor, and social cooperation.”

Today we begin to retrace the path of decay and start traversing the path of prosperity. We have everything to be the country we have always dreamed of: we have the resources, we have the people, we have the creativity, and more importantly, we have the resilience to move forward.

Today we once again embrace the ideas of freedom, those ideas that are summed up in the definition of liberalism by our great forefather of the ideas of freedom, Professor Alberto Benegas Lynch, son, who says: 'liberalism is the unrestricted respect for the life project of others, based on the principle of non-aggression, in defense of the right to life, liberty and property, whose fundamental institutions are: private property, free markets free from state intervention, free competition, division of labor and social cooperation.' In that phrase – of 57 words – the essence of the new social contract chosen by Argentines is summarized.