Political Freedom Quotes

“Zamanism is about creating power and private resources for all in society by destroying bureaucratic and monopolistic control on society.”
― Zaman Ali, ZAMANISM Wealth of the People

“In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. Whether we realize its possibilities depends on all kinds of things — and above all on ourselves.”
― Karl Popper

“And there was a lot of exclaiming about some Massa Patrick Henry having cried out, 'Give me liberty or give me death!' Kunta liked that, but he couldn't understand how somebody white could say it; white folks looked pretty free to him.”
― Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions, no other guide but their own will. This complete independence, which they constantly enjoy towards their equals and in the intercourse of private life, tends to make them look upon all authority with a jealous eye, and speedily suggests to them the notion and the love of political freedom. Men living at such times have a natural bias to free institutions. Take any one of them at a venture, and search if you can his most deep-seated instincts; and you will find that, of all governments, he will soonest conceive and most highly value that government whose head he has himself elected, and whose administration he may control.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“One should not consider that the great principles of freedom end at your own frontiers, that as long as you have freedom, let the rest have pragmatism. No! Freedom is indivisible and one has to take a moral attitude towards it.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Warning to the West

“The truth brings no man a fortune”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“I'm glad of any political freedom they give me, but what I'm interested in is not political freedom. I'm interested in the liberties I take.”
― Robert Frost

“Ultimately, all executions are political. Their exercise is arbitrary, often capricious, and irrevocable.”
― Barry Jones, The Penalty is Death: state power, law, and justice

“When circumstances feel as if they are turning surreal, like the current political situation. We can be guaranteed, our intuition will lead the way to the truth, as long as we don’t live in a world of wishful thinking.”
― Anita B. Sulser PhD, We Are One

“If one were to rob human beings of the power to do and say what they please, that would be to take away, and to curtail the first principle of independence.”
― Julian, Misopogon