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The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Because Iranians have had to fight so long and painfully for political freedom, they have a deep appreciation for its value - perhaps deeper than many in the West who take their electoral rights for granted.
Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever.
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise.
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.
Many Americans, but Republicans in particular, long opposed the nationalization of industry and state-controlled companies that are more common in Europe. Instead, they were proud of the American commitment to both economic and political freedom.
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.
The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free society. And it offers minorities the one thing they can never get from liberalism: human rather than racial dignity.
The American political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that liberal democracies, with their political freedom and economic success, have three important pillars: a strong government, the rule of law, and democratic accountability. I would add a fourth: free markets.
As I tell young people in workshops, 'It's your country. If you came here on the bottom of a slave ship, if your people came here seeking political freedom - however your folks got here - it belongs to you just as much as it belongs to anyone, so claim it. It's your birthright. America belongs to every person who is here.'
It's all very well for us to sit here in the west with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.