Capable Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations get corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

— Benjamin Franklin

What is national freedom if not a people’s inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

— Ahad Ha'am

This great republic is a mockery of freedom as long as you are doomed to dig and sweat to earn a miserable living while…

— Helen Keller

“Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of…

— James A. Garfield

Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

— George Santayana

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole…

— Ai Weiwei

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

— Richard Flanagan

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

— Sun Yat-sen

Nations, as well as individuals, must be virtuous and righteous if they desire to be stable, prosperous, and tranquil.

— Daniel L Dreisbach