Quotes on Political Freedom

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.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

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

If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.