Freedom Quotes
The most fought-for idea in human history, explored by those who won it, lost it, and fought to keep it.
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"The pursuit of freedom requires the discipline of responsibility."Anna Schwartz
"Freedom and responsibility are inseparable."Paul Samuelson
"An inequality of capacities does not justify an inequality of freedom."Gunnar Myrdal
"Freedom without responsibility is merely chaos."Gunnar Myrdal
"Freedom demands eternal vigilance."Gunnar Myrdal
"We are slaves to statistics only if we forget to question them."Simon Kuznets
"In the end, the true measure of economic success is the freedom and opportunity it provides."Simon Kuznets
"Economic freedom is impossible without political and social freedom; the three are inseparable."Simon Kuznets
"Data is democracy; ignorance is tyranny dressed in statistical clothes."Wassily Leontief
"Freedom without responsibility is license, not liberty."Kenneth Arrow
"Every choice eliminates other possibilities - this is freedom's cost."Kenneth Arrow
"Freedom without responsibility becomes tyranny of another kind."Kenneth Boulding
"Freedom and prosperity are intertwined in ways that tyranny cannot break."Paul Samuelson
"Democracy requires constant vigilance against the creeping normalcy of inequality."Gunnar Myrdal
"The freedom to choose is meaningless without real options."Gunnar Myrdal
"Real freedom requires not just absence of constraint but presence of opportunity."Gunnar Myrdal
"Freedom without solidarity is merely the freedom to exploit."Gunnar Myrdal
"True democracy requires economic democracy, not just political democracy."Gunnar Myrdal
"Freedom and responsibility are inseparable; we cannot have one without the other."Gunnar Myrdal
"The economy is a human creation, shaped by human choices."Simon Kuznets
"The future is not predetermined by statistics; it is created by choices."Simon Kuznets
"Economic development is the liberation of human potential."Simon Kuznets
"Independence of mind is difficult to maintain when you are working within a profession or institution."Joan Robinson
"Freedom of thought requires freedom from economic desperation."Joan Robinson
"Freedom is something that every human being desperately wants to feel."Kenneth Boulding
"The consumer, so it is said, is the king... each is a voter who uses his money as votes to get the kind of world he and his families want."Paul Samuelson
"Freedom is a rare thing, and most people don't appreciate it when they have it."Milton Friedman
"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."Milton Friedman
"The most important thing to understand is that the key to economic growth is freedom."Milton Friedman
"The great threat to freedom is the concentration of power."Milton Friedman