Penn Jillette Quotes

You can easily rebuild wealth, but you cannot create liberty when it has gone.

I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

It's such a joy to be able to have friendships free from worry. It's so lovely to live without fear.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

The very freedom we seek cannot be attained until we chain some of our exaggerated individuality.

Democracy is liberty plus economic security. We Americans want to pray, think as we please—and eat regular.

The deeper purpose of democratic government is to assist as many of its citizens as possible - especially those who need it most - to improve their conditions of life, to retain all personal liberty which does not adversely affect their neighbors, and to pursue the happiness which comes with security and an opportunity for recreation and culture.

The movement from slavery to freedom is also a movement from security to insecurity of maintenance.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it helps you look for it in a lot more places.

Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.

I want to make sure my family is happy.

People just want to live their best lives. They want to be socially free, physically safe, and financially secure.

Shop for security over happiness and we buy it at that price.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

You can’t have meaningful political democracy without functioning economic democracy.

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means that you don't spend a lot of time chewing on your knuckles about your reason for being here.Also, you're at your most beautiful. No woman is ever more beautiful than she is at 50.

I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the two should not clash.

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.

I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

You beg for happiness in life, but security is more important to you, even if it costs you your spine or your life. Your life will be good and secure when aliveness will mean more to you than security; love more than money; your freedom more than party line or public opinion; when your thinking will be in harmony with your feelings; when the teachers of your children will be better paid than the politicians; when you will have more respect for the love between man and woman than for a marriage license.