Best freedom & economic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.”

Mean Real Matter Sex Freedom Class Economic Advantage Equality Shifting Disappearance Real Freedom

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize the region, in the weeks ahead, Republicans and Democrats in Congress will continue to press the Obama administration on the details of these parameters and the tough questions that remain unanswered. We will stand strong on behalf of the American people and everyone in the Middle East who values freedom, security, and peace.”

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

Politics Individual Belief Freedom Liberty Democracy Economic Ignorance Libertarian Collectives Libertarianism Pathetic Democracies Have Individual Liberty Voting And Democracy Majority Rule Collective Wisdom

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.”

Humans Facts Political Given Social Process Religious Justice Freedom Levels Struggle Relationship Economic Higher Social Justice Finals Evolve Continuing Higher Level

Author:A. Philip Randolph

“Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”

“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.”

“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.”

“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 happiness. The worthy goals of civilization can only be achieved by freedom-loving individuals. When government uses force, liberty is sacrificed and the goals are lost. It is freedom that is the source of all creative energy.”

“Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty”

Sometimes Freedom Poverty Economic Relate Sanitary

Book:Development as Freedom

Source: Development as Freedom

“Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.”

Culture Freedom Democracy Economic Development Approach Intellectual Democratic Guarantees Economic Development Intellectual Freedom

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.”

Mean Political Freedom Economic Achievement Independent Indispensable Economic Freedom Political Freedom

Author:Milton Friedman

“Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.”

“Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.”

Mind Political Freedom Economic Free Market Economic Freedom Political Freedom

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.”

War Philosophy Freedom Economic Trade Etc Nationalism Monetary Protectionism Foreign Exchange

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that human beings are more than the sum of their material appetites, our country is more than an economic machine, and freedom is not license but responsibility.”

Humans Country America Freedom Human Beings Responsibility Moral Vision Economic Materials Machines Fundamentals Embrace Currents Our Country Eras Appetite License Transcendent

Author:Bill Moyers

“We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a Constitution that gave them political freedom and encouraged initiative, enterprise, responsibility, industry and thrift. Freedom and achievement are not unrelated. This nation has become one of history's finest illustrations of how a people can enrich life and raise their whole level of economic well-being when they are given justice, liberty and incentive.”

“History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died for human freedom, against political oppression and economic slavery.”

Source: Labor's Own William Z. Foster: A Communist's Fifty Years of Working-class Leadership and Struggle

“The socialist system, however, forbids this fundamental freedom to choose one's own career. Under socialist conditions, there is only one economic authority, and it has the right to determine all matters concerning production.”

Matter Freedom Careers Economic Conditions Authority Fundamentals Determine Productions Socialism Socialist Freedom To Choose

Book:Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

“Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a sceptical attitude towards intervention in those markets unless there is a clearly defined economic rationale for it.”

Freedom Attitude Economy Economic Economics Backgrounds Defined Reserves Favour Free Market Intervention Rationale

Author:Ian Macfarlane

“Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”

Political Politics Freedom Economic Products Surplus Economic Freedom

Book:In Place of Fear

Source: In Place of Fear

“In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the . . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.”

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