Herbert Croly Quotes

If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts - or others like them - will continue.

If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

The people must have the opportunity to vote for the liberation from slavery and blackmail imposed by technocrats in Brussels to return sovereignty to the country.

Britain is the home of economic freedom, with liberty guaranteed by the independence of our state institutions, and an absence of corruption assured by transparency.

Self-determination means the political and economic status of Hong Kong should be freely determined by the Hong Kong people.

A government of our own is our natural right; and when a man seriously reflects on the precariousness of human affairs, he will become convinced, that it is infinitely wiser and safer, to form a constitution of our own in a cool deliberate manner, while we have it in our power, than to trust such an interesting event to time and chance.

Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Money grants you freedom, I guess.

I'm for economic independence.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

I feel very lucky that I don't have to rely on a man to give me financial security. That's a big deal.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.