Zitat des Tages über Politische Freiheit / Political Freedom:
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.
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.
For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
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.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Political freedom is a political reading of the Bible.
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.
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 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.
I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.