Individual Freedom Quotes - Page 3

• We need a free economy not only for the renewed material prosperity it will bring, but because it is indispensable to individual freedom, human dignity and to a more just, more honest society.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Needs, Dignity, Honest

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• We must introduce a new balance in the relationship between the individual and the government--a balance that favors greater individual freedom and self-reliance.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Freedom, Government, Self

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1979). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

  Ai Weiwei

  Different, Demand, Events

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Academic Freedom, Individual, Authority

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• One of the basic philosophical tenets of conservatism - which says that the more power devolves from the federal government to the states, the greater individual freedom grows - is just flatly contradicted by crucial junctures in the country's life, most conspicuously in the 1860s and 1960s, when it's been the federal government that's interceded against the states to secure individual freedom.

  Steve Erickson

  Country, Philosophical, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It became inescapable that as conservatives were wrong about people of color, they were also wrong about women. They were wrong about gay people. The only individual freedoms they seemed to get exercised about were the freedom to make a profit and the freedom to own a gun.

  Steve Erickson

  Gay, Gun, Color

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.

  Emily Raboteau

  Struggle, Thinking, Civil Rights

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The Constitution was written to protect individual freedom and limit the ability of the government to encroach upon it. The liberals don't like that. The Democrats are very unhappy. The Constitution limits government too much. So they want to rewrite it, have a second Bill of Rights. So they want a new Bill of Rights that spells out what government can do instead of a Bill of Rights that tells government what it can't do.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Unhappy, Constitution, Individual

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big. Democracy is always frustrating, but it creates a society that, for example, allows us to invest in each other's kids, to have public education, to have both a greater society and individual freedom for creating businesses.

  Reid Hoffman

  Believe, Kids, Democracy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• America is fundamentally conservative. People want a strong national defense. They want low taxes. They want individual freedoms. There's no doubt that the Republican party has got to rebuild. We've got to restructure. We've got to let new leaders come to the fore. But at the end of the day, those fundamental core principles are the ones that have made the nation great, not just the party affecting them.

  Liz Cheney

  Strong, Party, People

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

  Ai Weiwei

  Ties, Political, Limits

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.

  Dalai Lama

  Creativity, Long Ago, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As human beings, we are always torn between individual freedom and the ability of choose our actions, and the need for at least enough social structure so that anarchy, chaos, and warlordery - or the war of all against all - can be avoided.

  Margaret Atwood

  War, Needs, Our Actions

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• I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point of view, a point of view which stresses the importance of private markets, of individual freedom, and the distorting effect of governmental policy.

  Milton Friedman

  Stress, Believe, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

  Jon Meacham

  Law, Liberty, Who We Are

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• It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, World, Spirit

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.25, Oberon Books

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• Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original document, and observe the anniversary with hopes not realized and promises not fulfilled. I plan to celebrate the bicentennial of the Constitution as a living document, including the Bill of Rights and the other amendments protecting individual freedoms and human rights.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Struggle, Sacrifice, Rights

  Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.285, Chicago Review Press

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• The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the staunchest friend of beleaguered Israel, and the greatest promoter of global individual freedom in our recent memory.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Memories, Government, Israel

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• And when the time is right, I hope that African Americans will again look to the party of emancipation, civil liberty, and individual freedom.

  Rand Paul

  Party, African American, Liberty

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Desire, Libertarian

  "Reason" Magazine, July 1, 1975.

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• A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Names, Evil

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

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• Americans, Poles, and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty. We must work together to confront forces, whether they come from inside or out, from the South or the East, that threaten over time to undermine the values and to erase the bonds of culture, faith and tradition that make us who we are.

  Donald Trump

  Working Together, Culture, Tradition

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Individual, Dare

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Power, Purpose

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Marriage would change hardly anything between us, except that we would end our arguments in a much more satisfying way. And of course I would have extensive legal rights over your body, your property, and all your individual freedoms, but I don't see what's so alarming about that.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Rights, Body, Way

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.252, St. Martin's Press

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