Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [501-520] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?~ Paul Harvey The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.~ John Hay This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.~ Robert Earl Hayden A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.~ Friedrich August von Hayek ...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.~ Friedrich August von Hayek What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy particular preferences, to aim at what people regard as beautiful or pleasant order, but it is also the indispensable condition for just keeping that population alive which exists already in the world. I regard the preservation of what is known as the capitalist system, of the system of free markets and the private ownership of the means of production, as an essential condition of the very survival of mankind.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. ~ Friedrich August von Hayek [T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.~ Friedrich August von Hayek I am certain that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.~ Friedrich August von Hayek All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.~ Friedrich August von Hayek There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men – the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power.~ Robert Y. Hayne The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.~ William Hazlitt We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.~ Chris Hedges Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print