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• It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

  Lucy Burns

  Freedom, Women, Rights

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• Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Political Revolution, Long

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “Lincoln Speeches”, p.52, Penguin

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• Privacy is absolutely essential to maintaining a free society. The idea that is at the foundation of the notion of privacy is that the citizen is not the tool or instrument of government - but the reverse... If you have no privacy, it will tend to follow that you have no political freedom.

  Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

  Government, Ideas, Political

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• Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Political, Mastery, Hegemony

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• Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated. And it will, therefore, increase the effectiveness of the decisions we make and try to implement for our development. My generation led Africa to political freedom. The current generation of leaders and peoples of Africa must pick up the flickering torch of African freedom, refuel it with their enthusiasm and determination, and carry it forward.

  Julius Nyerere

  Determination, Effectiveness, Decisions We Make

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• Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kings, Freedom, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.50, David M Gross

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• Political freedom is neither easy nor automatic, neither pleasant nor secure. It is the responsibility of the individual for the decisions of society as if they were his own decisions-as
  in moral truth and accountability they are.

  Peter Drucker

  Responsibility, Decision, Accountability

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.130, Routledge

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• The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom.

  Vishal Mangalwadi

  Giving, Political, Corruption

  Vishal Mangalwadi (2012). “The Book that Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization”, p.255, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them.

  Mark Thomas

  Political, Lucky, Should

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• For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Issues, Rights, Long

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• The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Political, Vices

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of 'justice' but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when 'freedom' becomes a special privilege.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Party, Thinking, Government

  Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.69, University of Michigan Press

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• Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Determination, Men, Average

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• We have come to world leadership because our people have had the opportunity to develop this nation under a government and a Constitution that gave them political freedom and encouraged initiative, enterprise, responsibility, industry and thrift. Freedom and achievement are not unrelated. This nation has become one of history's finest illustrations of how a people can enrich life and raise their whole level of economic well-being when they are given justice, liberty and incentive.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Freedom, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Educational, Ignorance, Race

  Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose (1947). “Annual”

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• We’ve always been involved with issues that deal with the fundamental human rights of people, whether that means the right to political freedom or the right to breathe air that’s clean.

  Mary Travers

  Mean, Rights, Air

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• Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

  Milton Friedman

  Political, Typical, Misery

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions. Human dignity is the right to health, work, education and social welfare. Human dignity is the right and the practical possibility to shape the future with others. These rights, the rights of democracy, are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

  Olof Palme

  Rights, People, Political

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• Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.

  Eugen Richter

  Philosophy, Political, Economics

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• Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Organization, Political

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

  Simon Schama

  Father, Tyrants, Charlie Hebdo

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• Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

  Milton Friedman

  Mean, Achievement, Political

  Capitalism and Freedom ch. 1 (1962)

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• 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.

  Mitt Romney

  People, Political, Brutality

  "Romney Remarks for Cuban Independence Day". www.capitolhillcubans.com. May 18, 2012.

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• When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.

  Hannah Arendt

  Country, Freedom, Blessing

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• I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Mean, Political, Ruins

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