Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [441-460] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.~ Milton Friedman Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.~ Milton Friedman The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights…This implies a belief in the equality of man in one sense; in their inequality in another.~ Milton Friedman The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interest.~ Milton Friedman O, only a free soul will never grow old! [Ger., O, nur eine freie Seele wird nicht alt.]~ Jean Paul Friedrich Richter If you want a Big Brother, you get all that comes with it.~ Erich Fromm Freedom lies in being bold.~ Robert Frost A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.~ Robert Frost To deny freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.~ James Anthony Froude English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.~ James Anthony Froude 19 terrorists in 6 weeks have been able to command 300 million North Americans to do away with the entirety of their civil liberties that took 700 years to advance from the Magna Carta onward. The terrorists have already won the political and ideological war with one terrorist act. It is mindboggling that we are that weak as a society.~ Rocco Galati I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and  intellect has intended us to forgo their use.~ Galileo Galilei The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.~ Albert Gallatin Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. ... Freedom and slavery are mental states. Therefore, the first thing to say to yourself: 'I shall no longer accept the role of a slave. I shall not obey orders as such but shall disobey them when they are in conflict with my conscience'.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Freedom is not worth living if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that previous right.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.~ James A. Garfield We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.~ Daryl Gates Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print