Words matter. These are the best Political Freedom Quotes from famous people such as Lajos Kossuth, Emma Goldman, Olof Palme, Stephen Kinzer, Herbert Hoover, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value – perhaps deeper than many in the West who take their electoral rights for granted.
Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.
Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.
The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free society. And it offers minorities the one thing they can never get from liberalism: human rather than racial dignity.
I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.
