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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.
It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.
Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.
Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
People demand freedom only when they have no power.
There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.