Best Individual Freedom Quotes
72 Individual Freedom quotes by 58 unique authors
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To reverse the trend and reduce the role of government in our lives, and thus alleviate the government deficit and inflation pressures, is a giant…
— Hans F. Sennholz
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I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're…
— Jack Nicholson
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I believe the highest aspiration of man should be individual freedom and the development of the individual.
— Ronald Reagan
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The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom.…
— Arthur Miller
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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by…
— Emile M. Cioran
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By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with…
— Ronald Reagan
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The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was…
— Fareed Zakaria
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Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed…
— Timothy Leary
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We are resolved to protect individual freedom of belief. This freedom must include the child as well as the parent. The freedom for which we…
— Sophia Lyon Fahs
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I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
— Chris Patten
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Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain.…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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The true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles…
— Jacob G. Hornberger
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In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for…
— Ai Weiwei
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Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and…
— Ronald Reagan
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Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.
— William F. Schulz
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We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides…
— Barack Obama
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I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to…
— William E. Gladstone
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The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why…
— Milton Friedman
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We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go…
— Dalai Lama
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Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter…
— Joe Lhota
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Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
— Lyn Nofziger
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The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much…
— Bill O'Reilly
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Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control,…
— Steven Pinker
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