Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value -… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political… — Mary Travers Copy Share Image
The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars:… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders...tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
“Democracy and freedom do not guarantee the millennium. No, we do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that.… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
No principle, that is possible to be named, can be more self-evidently false than this; or more self-evidently fatal to all political… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The same thing will happen in China that happened in Chile. Political freedom will ultimately break out of its shackles. Tiananmen Square… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Every student of political science, every student of political economy, every student of economics knows that the race can only be saved… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to… — Neil McDonald Copy Share Image
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is… — Benno C. Schmidt, Jr Copy Share Image
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Naturally the common people don't want war. . . but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine policy,… — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press,… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Franz Rosenthal, the late professor of Arabic studies, said the following about him: The modern reader can hardly fail to notice that… — Mustafa Akyol Copy Share Image
Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“Most American ideas were a part of the great tradition of the eighteenth-century common-wealthmen, the radical Whig ideology that arose from a… — Robert Middlekauff Copy Share Image
There is in fact a manly and legitimate passion for equality that spurs all men to wish to be strong and esteemed.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and… — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
