Awful Quote by Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

— Samuel Johnson

We prefer poverty in liberty than riches in slavery.

— Ahmed Sekou Toure

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

— Thomas Jefferson

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

— Harold Laski

We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with…

— Joseph Pulitzer

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it…

— Samuel Johnson

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

— John Major

Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers.…

— Etienne de La Boetie

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

— Democritus

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

— Mother Teresa

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded…

— Thomas Paine