Milton Friedman, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sir Francis Bacon

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"Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom

broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ...

Economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement

of political freedom."

-- Milton Friedman

(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system"

Source: his 1962 book, Capitalism and Freedom

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Milton.Friedman.Quote.12C7

 

 

"He who passively

accepts evil

is as much

involved in it

as he who helps

to perpetuate it."

-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

(1929-1968), US civil rights leader

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Martin.Luther.King.Quote.8040

 

 

"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,

or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self."

-- Sir Francis Bacon

(1561-1626) Philosopher, British Lord Chancellor

Source: Essays

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Francis.Bacon.Quote.B67D

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"It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,

or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self."

-- Sir Francis Bacon

(1561-1626) Philosopher, British Lord Chancellor

Source: Essays

http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Francis.Bacon.Quote.B67D

 

 

 

My philosophy is that I hold the keys to me; no one else has them. I desire power over no one, will keep liberty and kill anyone or overcome anything that tries to take it away.