Abiding Quote by Robert Kennedy

At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society,…

— Robert Kennedy

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

— Robert Kennedy

In the West we are free to think what we want, to read what we want, to practice our religion, to live as we…

— Ibn Warraq

The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal…

— Ron Paul

As a man develops, he places a greater value upon his own rights. Liberty becomes a grander and diviner thing. As he values his…

— Anonymous

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons…

— Aristotle

“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms -…

— David F. Ford

Liberty is ceding a certain amount of your ability to do what you want so that everybody else can live in peace and freedom…

— Rudy Giuliani

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;… Consequently,…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Democracy rests upon two pillars: one, the principle that all men are equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; and the…

— Louis D. Brandeis

The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense…

— Henry Giroux