George Woodcock Quotes

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

The liberty of the individual is a necessary postulate of human progress.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

For more than two centuries, the defenders of liberty have put their lives on the line, because they have known that we cannot take our freedoms for granted.

Tensions exist in any free society. But the freedom we enjoy rests on a foundation of individual liberty and shared moral values.

I am pro-freedom.

Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must he the supreme goal and the abiding practice of any western society.

… it [liberty] denotes not merely freedom from bodily restraint, but also the right of the individual to engage in any of the common occupations of life, to acquire useful knowledge, to marry, establish a home, bring up children, to worship God according to the dictates of one's own conscience and generally, to enjoy those privileges long recognized in common law as essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Liberty is the most important thing.

Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.

There's a difference between people being free and the atmosphere of 'freedom.'

Information technology is a formidable enabler of freedoms. For example, it lowers barriers to freedom of expression and allows people to get a better grasp of their lives. It should not be used to reduce the freedom of people.

Freedom is the very essence of our economy and society. Without freedom the human mind is prevented from unleashing its creative force. But what is also clear is that this freedom does not stand alone. It is freedom in responsibility and freedom to exercise responsibility.

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization; men are born free, and need never be in chains. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

I believe in limited government and the right of the individual to make choices and in a strong national defense and in freedom and liberty as being the right of every person on the face of the Earth.

What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free.

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything