Famous Quotes & Sayings

Murray Rothbard

This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic." But it should be clear that what has happened in this activity proper to man's nature is a fusion of "spirit" and matter; man's mind, using the ideas it has learned, directs his energy in transforming and reshaping matter into ways to sustain and advance his wants and his life. Behind every "produced" good, behind every man-made transformation of natural resources, is an idea directing the effort, a manifestation of man's spirit.

Moliere

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Milton Friedman

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

Milton Friedman

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

Milton Friedman

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.

Milton Friedman

I start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief ... that nobody can be sure that what he believes is right, is really right ... I'm an imperfect human being who cannot be certain of anything, so what position ... involved the least intolerance on my part? ... The most attractive position ... is putting individual freedom first.

Milton Friedman

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.

Milton Friedman

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Milton Friedman

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

Milton Friedman

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

Milton Friedman

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Julian Bond

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Julia Ward Howe

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.

Omar N. Bradley

Freedom-no word was ever spoken that has held out greater hope, demanded greater sacrifice, needed more to be nurtured, blessed more the giver. . . or came closer to being God's will on earth.

Oprah Winfrey

The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.

Margaret Atwood

There is more than one kind of freedom," said Aunt Lydia. "Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To freemen, threats are impotent.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our thoughts are free.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

Margaret Chase Smith

Freedom unexercised may become freedom forfeited.

Paul Molitor

I could become a free agent. I'd have to go to an American League team, like the Mets. That sounds funny, doesn't it?

I don't miss free throws. I don't know what I was doing.

Marc Warren

I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.

Paul Mooney

I do celebrate anything with freedom in it, you know.

Moira Kelly

I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.

I'd never had to shoot free throws in a situation like that before. I just went up there and thought about hitting my free throws. I wasn't thinking about anything else.