If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom. — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States. — Emanuel Celler 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… — Alexander Meiklejohn Copy Share Image
Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
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
A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy. One's right to… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom… — Sri Aurobindo 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
Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the… — Alexander Meiklejohn 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
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
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political… — Lucy Burns Copy Share Image
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom. — Milton Friedman 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
