Famous Quotes

"Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus."

Aneurin Bevan on Freedom

More quotes about Freedom

• "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

  Ronald Reagan on Freedom

• "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

  Nelson Mandela on Freedom

• "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

  Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom

• "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

  Robert A. Heinlein on Freedom

• "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Freedom

More quotes by Aneurin Bevan

• "Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable."

• "It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically."

• "Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born."

• "Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future."

• "It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world."