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- Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
- This, then, is freedom in the external life of man-that he is independent of the arbitrary power of his fellows.
- There cannot be stable money within an environment dominated by ideologies hostile to the preservation of economic freedom.
- The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man…
- So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal…
- The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to…
- The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom…
- The aim of all struggles for liberty is to keep in bounds the armed defenders of peace, the governors and their constables. The political concept…
- The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself…
- If we live our lives as a gift it is possible to reach a blissful state of eternal happiness. It is those who live their…
- There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.
- The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion.
- Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of what is called…
- This is the difference between slavery and freedom. The slave must do what his superior orders him to do, but the free citizen-and this is…
- The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
- Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.
- The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary…
- It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last resort…
- Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.
- Liberty is always freedom from the government.
- Planning other people's actions means to prevent them from planning for themselves, means to deprive them of their essentially human quality, means enslaving them.
- ...this remedy is the power of the citizens; they have to prevent the establishment of such an autocratic regime that arrogates to itself a higher…
- The so-called liberals of today have the very popular idea that freedom of speech, of thought, of the press, freedom of religion, freedom from imprisonment…
- Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can…
- The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is…
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- Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood