Adversaries Quote by Friedrich Engels

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

— Vladimir Lenin

When there is state there can be no freedom, but when there is freedom there will be no state.

— Vladimir Lenin

Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.

— Hunter S. Thompson

In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result,…

— Chuck Baldwin

Once the state is looked upon as the source of rights, rather than their bound protector, freedom becomes conditional on the pleasure of the…

— Mary McCarthy

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

— Oliver Ellsworth

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

— Ludwig von Mises

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its…

— Andrzej Stasiuk

Freedom can be destroyed, not just by its retraction, but also by its abuse.

— Ravi Zacharias

Freedom is the disappearance of that which is searching for freedom.

— Adyashanti

Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other…

— Hilaire Belloc

Freedom is about what you can unleash.

— Harriet Rubin