Freedom Quotes

9007 Freedom quotes by 3931 unique authors

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. — David McCullough
The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community. — Bode Miller
Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort… — Unknown Author
Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule of… — David Icke
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals… — Keith Preston
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom — Margaret Thatcher
The companies only developed if the state did not intervene in the French fashion. If on the contrary a certain degree of economic freedom was… — Fernand Braudel
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the… — Aneurin Bevan
Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.… — Milton Friedman
Let us first of all frugality in government-peace and freedom we will have as a bonus. — Frederic Bastiat
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine… — Henry Charles Carey
But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press.… — Auguste Comte
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated… — Ralph Raico
Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom. — Eugen Richter
What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly… — Eugen Richter
And for man to look upon himself as a capital good, even if it did not impair his freedom, may seem to debase him... by… — Unknown Author
There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse… — Michael J. Fox
All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified by advancing knowledge.… — Austin Bradford Hill
It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it… — George Monbiot
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of… — Benjamin Disraeli
I think the democratic movement will be repressed for now, only to erupt again somewhere down the line.And more blood will be shed, just like… — Nien Cheng
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom. — Pearl S. Buck
This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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