Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [421-440] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.~ Viktor Frankl Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.~ Benjamin Franklin We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.~ Benjamin Franklin Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.~ Benjamin Franklin Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you.~ Benjamin Franklin In my youth I travelled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor. Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? — On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent. The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependance on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness. In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty.~ Benjamin Franklin Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.~ Benjamin Franklin Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.~ Benjamin Franklin A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district - all studied and appreciated as they merit - are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.~ Benjamin Franklin Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.~ Benjamin Franklin Freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness. That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the West coast.~ Viktor Frankyl The freemen of America will remember, that it is very easy to change a free government into an arbitrary, despotic, or military one: but it is very difficult, almost impossible to reverse the matter -- very difficult to regain freedom once lost.~ Freeman’s Journal Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.~ Sigmund Freud The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.~ David D. Friedman A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.~ Milton Friedman Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.~ Milton Friedman To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served.~ Milton Friedman A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.~ Milton Friedman Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.~ Milton Friedman I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my value system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.~ Milton Friedman Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print