Bernie Sanders Quotes

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

Money equals freedom.

I'm for economic independence.

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

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

Without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Money is kind of just like air - if you don't have air, you can't breathe. If you don't have money, I don't think you'll want to breathe - you won't want to live.

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.

There's a lot of freedom in having nothing. You don't have responsibility. You have nobody to answer to. But I'd rather deal without the poverty.

We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.

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

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Free Americans deserve the chance to be fully self-supporting.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race, economic independence.

All men who would obtain freedom must obtain wealth

He is rich enough who has no wants.

I've seen that most of us want the same things: to be safe where we live, secure in our finances, and free in our lives.

I've always been the one who struggled financially, so now it's so cool that I can make my own money and do whatever I want with it.

He is not poor who has a competency.

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security.

It is much harder to become independent if you are wealthy than to become wealthy if you are independent.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.