Quotes by Liberty The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity. Ayn Rand degrees liberty country I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy. Ayn Rand giving-up liberty men Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action. Ayn Rand liberty government special To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. Ayn Rand persuasion liberty men Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes, to specialize in it, to trade his product for the products of others, and to go as far on the road of achievement as his ability and ambition will carry him. Ayn Rand liberty ambition men The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave. Ayn Rand liberty freedom men What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or compulsion. Ayn Rand essentials liberty principles I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics. Ayn Rand liberty one-day politics All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy. Ayn Rand liberty government poison It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they want to 'preserve' private property-with government control of its use and disposal. But that is the fundamental characteristic of fascism. Ayn Rand liberty government use It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible. Ayn Rand libertarian liberty impossible Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier which the Collective cannot cross... these rights are man's protection against all other men. Ayn Rand liberty rights men Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties. Ayn Rand liberty rights men I hold that such a question can never arise except in a society of cannibals. Ayn Rand cannibal arise liberty Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement. Ayn Rand liberty men needs I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity. B. R. Ambedkar fraternity equality liberty What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. B. R. Ambedkar liberty rights order America stands for individual liberty, but that means an ordered liberty. Bainbridge Colby liberty mean america A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare. Bainbridge Colby liberty law common Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Barack Obama justice-for-all patriotic liberty «678910111213141516»