We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them. — Mark Thomas Copy Share Image
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom. — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance. — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later. — Milton Friedman 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
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
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech. — Teresa Heinz Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights. — Jennifer Chiaverini 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 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
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
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
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
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
“The American Revolution was characterized by three basic freedoms: economic freedom or capitalism, political freedom or constitutional democracy, and freedom of speech… — Dinesh D'Souza 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
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
“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
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
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is… — Hannah Arendt 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
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
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“The culture generated by peer-orientation is sterile in the strict sense of that word: it is unable to reproduce itself or to… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“They [anarchists and radical environmentalists] point out that the state and its philosophers, having retrospectively sold us a social contract we never… — Mick Smith Copy Share Image
“Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“On the basis of the evidence, the only conclusion we can draw from Scheler’s remark is that, thanks to the theory of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style… — Evan Osnos Copy Share Image
“Capitalism began as a theory about how the economy functions. It was both descriptive and prescriptive – it offered an account of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image