Words matter. These are the best Individual Freedom Quotes from famous people such as Mohanlal, Dalai Lama, Friedrich August von Hayek, John Bates Clark, Harry Browne, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.
China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
The communitarians may say you’ve been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life – to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
The NRA is where you resist, and stand and fight to put America back on track to restore and preserve our individual freedom.
President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.
I am not about to be a party to anything having to do with the law that is going to destroy individual freedom and liberty in this country.
Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. Liberty is not provided by government; liberty preexists government. It’s our natural birthright, not a gift from the sovereign. Our founders upended things and divided power to enshrine a promise, not a process.
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world – including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.
Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.
Well, I’m a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
The more laws that governments pass, the less individual freedom there is. Any student of history will tell you that. Totalitarian countries ban pretty much everything.
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it’s one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that’s why it’s so essential to preserving individual freedom.
The conservative movement was founded on core principles of liberty, individual freedom, limited government and building and promoting strong families.
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.
I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.
A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
I believe in individual freedom and right to decide how and with whom I will live my life.
Ask me not, ‘Are you rightwing,’ but ask me ‘Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?’ Then, yeah, if being rightwing means believing Adam Smith was right, both in the ‘Wealth of Nations’ and the ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments,’ then I’m rightwing.
Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word ‘American.’
The little platoon of the black community is the church. Our Christian faith is based on individual freedom from sin and the personal decision to find spiritual liberty that leads to a better life here on Earth and for eternity. On Sundays in America, the most conservative people can be found in black churches.
I believe, basically, that individual freedom is very important.
I represent what I think is a traditional Republican… a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.
Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.
Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was a loyal supporter and friend of the United States and her terms as prime minister were marked as the beginning of the resurgence of the economy of the United Kingdom.
Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went from being feared as Big Brother surrogates to being thought of as metaphors for liberty and individual freedom.
The House Judiciary Committee is a great place to promote our core principles of constitutionally limited government, individual freedom and the rule of law.
I think, as Republicans, we need to stick by what we believe in. And that is fiscal conservatism and individual freedom.
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man’s free agency is a God-given gift.
At the core of our American value system is individual freedom.
If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that’s when the religion isn’t effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.
Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.
The libertarian worship of individual freedom, and contempt for social convention, comes easiest to people who have never really had to grow up.
The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.
We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.
