Eugen Richter famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Economic freedom has no security without political freedom, and political freedom can find its security only in economic freedom.
-- Eugen Richter

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What is the use of freedom of the press if the government is in possession of all the printing presses, what does freedom of assembly avail if all the meeting places belong to the government? In a society in which there is no more personal and economic freedom, even the freest form of the state cannot make political independence possible.
-- Eugen Richter

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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.
Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
Violence and fraud can create no right.
Over the long term, absent of other barriers, economics always win.

Eugen Richter famous quotes

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