Country Quote by George P. Shultz

No country is free unless it is democratic.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

— Anonymous

Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

— Francois Bourguignon

A government is free in proportion to the rights it guarantees to the minority.

— Alf Landon

China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.

— Bill Gates

“Eventually, however, the fact that many once-poor places like Hong Kong, South Korea, and Singapore achieved prosperity through freer international trade and investment became…

— Thomas Sowell

No free people in history very long maintained their political freedom after having once surrendered their industrial and commercial freedom.

— Robert La Folette

“Up until 1981, all classes of income were rising at about the same rate. However, in about 1981 a split started to happen. The…

— Dean Graziosi

“People in the US think they are "free" because they always hear that they are, even if all evidence shows it is no longer…

— Cass Swenson

The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result,…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I remember being very free in Ireland.

— Charley Boorman

The history of economic progress consists of charging a fee for what once was free.

— B. Joseph Pine II