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" Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade. "

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" Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings. "

Jon Stewart

Culture

Tyranny

Just

" Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? "

" Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory. "

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Memory

Short

Nation

" Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be. "

" The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. "

" Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. "

" Our earliest evidence of government, in the ruins of Babylon and Egypt, shows nothing but ziggurats and pyramids of wasted taxpayer money, the TARP funds and shovel-ready stimulus programs of their day. "

" You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. "

" The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. "

" The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews. "

" Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. "

P. J. O'Rourke

Purpose

Children

" The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. "

" Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue. "

" Startup India is welcome for the economy, but it cannot be accompanied by 'Shut Up India' in society. What gives Startup India its strength is freedom of expression, thought, and dissent. You choke this, and you choke entrepreneurship. "

" Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day. "

" Even in technology, you have the freedom to solve a problem your way, you see. But it naturally sits in a certain framework whereas, in the physics, everybody had to come up with his own idea what he was going to do. "

" One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted. "

" The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency. "

" Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Inestimable

Freedom

Possession

" The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community - and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities. "

" People love to be told what they know already. "

" There is something about boldness and fearlessness and being free enough to speak what is on one's mind that warrants freedom. "

" I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived. "

" There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees. "

" To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about. "

Aaron Rodgers

Flag

Look

" People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. "

" If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. "

" I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. "

" Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. "

" Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now. "