Quotes About Money And Freedom

#1. The Founding Fathers envisioned a federal government that trusts its people with their money and freedom, outlining this limited, non-intrusive federal government in ... the Constitution, leaving the other powers to people ... or to the states.

Milton Friedman

#2. I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

Diablo Cody

#3. I'm getting a little tired of politicians trying to prove how 'moderate' and 'centrist' they are by taking more of my money and freedom. Where's this center - somewhere between Lenin and Stalin?

Ann Coulter

#4. Respect got men murdered. Only stupid men die for anything other than money and freedom.

Dennis Liggio

#5. Money comes with a price, and for me, the price is both freedom and a real life.

Savi Sharma

#6. Under certain conditions, index numbers may do very useful service as an aid to investigation into the history and statistics of prices; for the extension of the theory of the nature and value of money they are unfortunately not very important.

Ludwig Von Mises

#7. "Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

Nikita Khrushchev

#8. Liberty is more precious than money or office; and we should be vigilant lest we purchase wealth or place at the price of inner freedom.

John Lancaster Spalding

#9. In the U.K., there's absolutely no money for television. So you can do pretty much whatever you want. They're not losing money on any of the shows, so they'll give you a lot of creative freedom. In the United States, there are millions and millions of dollars at stake, so they need a sure formula.

Kristen Schaal

#10. It's time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process - and the process toward wealth and freedom. 'Freedom from Bad Debt' can get you started.

Robert Kiyosaki

#11. Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

Isabel Paterson

#12. Everyone who believes in freedom must work diligently for sound money, fully redeemable. Nothing else is compatible with the humanitarian goals of peace and prosperity.

Ron Paul

#13. Money is ego, and people won't give it up. Just want to protect themselves, hold on to it like a blanket. They don't realize it keeps them slaves. It's sick" "What's funny is that as soon as you give everything away, as soon as you say, Here, take it - that's when you really have everything".

Emma Cline

#14. Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

Jim DeMint

#15. I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

David Byrne

#16. Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

Phyllis Diller

#17. Money buys things that people with money never even realize they've bought, like time and freedom.
Whitney Otto

Whitney Otto

#18. Anne's is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.

Jude Morgan

#19. So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.

Rebecca McNutt

#20. Buy your freedom. Work really hard when you're young, save every penny, make a lot of money, and retire at 40, or 30 if you get lucky.

Andrew Skurka

#21. When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

Paul McCartney

#22. Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue ... Political control weakens individual self-reliance and energy, causes want and poverty and, in the end, breeds tyranny and oppression.

Hans F. Sennholz

#23. The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.

Will McDonough

#24. I didn't end up going bankrupt ... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.

Vanilla Ice

#25. There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.

Johnny Depp

#26. If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.

Dana Carvey

#27. And money you have, Rose. Plenty of it. And time. And if time can't give us freedom to do what we want, what good is time?

Anne Rice

#28. My decision isn't as important as the freedom to decide. And my income isn't as important as what I do to earn it.

Robin Sacredfire

#29. There is no true freedom without time freedom. And there is no time freedom without financial freedom.

Amah Lambert

#30. In the case of money, subjective use-value and subjective exchange-value coincide. Both are derived from objective exchange-value, for money has no utility other than that arising from the possibility of obtaining other economic goods in exchange for it.

Ludwig Von Mises

#31. I believe in the freedom of the net, but I don't believe in the freedom of the net at the cost of having these online criminal gangs running completely loose and using the freedom of the net to steal everybody's money and take away the trust we have.

Mikko Hypponen

#32. It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.

Gore Vidal

#33. The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you're willing to sacrifice

Nathan W. Morris

#34. Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.

John Waters

#35. It is not the poverty of individuals and the community, not indebtedness to foreign nations, not the unfavourableness of the conditions of production, that force up the rate of exchange, but inflation.

Ludwig Von Mises

#36. By 'the objective exchange-value of money' we are accordingly to understand the possibility of obtaining a certain quantity of other economic goods in exchange for a given quantity of money; and by 'the price of money' this actual quantity of other goods.

Ludwig Von Mises

#37. You can make EXCUSES and earn SYMPATHY,
OR
You can make MONEY and earn ADMIRATION.
The choice is always yours ...

Manoj Arora

#38. The agents of etatism have certainly not been lacking in zeal and energy. But, for all this, economic affairs cannot be kept going by magistrates and policemen.

Ludwig Von Mises

#39. I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#40. I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.

Dan Rosensweig

#41. 'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#42. True financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around.

Suze Orman

#43. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

George Orwell

#44. I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#45. As for movies, what's great about comedy is that if your movie gets laughs and makes money, you have freedom.

Adam McKay

#46. I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.

Muhammad Ali

#47. When individuals are exchanging present goods against future goods they do not take account in their valuations of Variations in the objective exchange-value of money. Lenders and borrowers are not in the habit of allowing for possible future fluctuations in the objective exchange-value of money.

Ludwig Von Mises

#48. If government were less important in our lives, politicians would have fewer goodies to trade. In return, we'd have more money and more freedom.

John Stossel

#49. Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that's a big deal. Also, lack of money is very stressful.

Sam Altman

#50. You need to break free from the chain of employment to fully utilize and discover your potential

Sunday Adelaja

#51. If I make a movie in English, the money will come from Europe, so that I can keep my independence and freedom. The way they produce in Hollywood doesn't fit me.

Pedro Almodovar

#52. The moneyprice of any commodity in any place, under the assumption of completely unrestricted exchange and disregarding the differences arising from the time taken in transit, must be the same as the price at any other place, augmented or diminished by the money-cost of transport.

Ludwig Von Mises

#53. If you destroy your identity, if you cut all ties and fake your death, then what's left? Something without labels, something with money
and freedom.

Scott Kelly

#54. The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

Hans F. Sennholz

#55. Losing your job releases you to think effectively and make rational decisions

Sunday Adelaja

#56. The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#57. Constant thoughts of money, possession, and control are a personal prison. Thoughts of God, family, and happiness are freedom.

Ron Baratono

#58. Understand and accept the cycles of money. The setbacks you may have today or next year will not keep you from financial freedom. If you hold on to your goals and dreams, you will get there.

Suze Orman

#59. The purpose of money was to purchase one's freedom to pursue that which is useful and interesting.

Benjamin Franklin

#60. You must tell your money how you want to live your life, and not the other way round.

Manoj Arora

#61. You'll never get that freedom back again once people start paying you attention, and especially not once they start paying you money.

Austin Kleon

#62. He would never forget the feeling of that first year, the sense of freedom just being on his own gave him. He had his own room for the first time, his own money to spend as he wanted, his own food to buy and places to go and decisions to make; it was glorious, sublime.

Iain Banks

#63. To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.

Joe Mansueto

#64. the freedom money gives the poor man is nothing to the freedom money has given the rich man. With money rich men ceased to be tied to lands, houses, stores, flocks and herds. They could change the nature and locality of their possessions with an unheard-of freedom.

H.G.Wells

#65. Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

Will Durant

#66. Humans used to desire love, money, food, shelter, safety, peace, and freedom more than anything else. The last 30 years have changed us. Now people want to have a good job, and they want their children to have a good job. This changes everything for world leaders.

Jim Clifton

#67. The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

Peter Shilton

#68. Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#69. All that money and still unable to count the blessings of her life, beginning with freedom from the paycheck.

Stephen King

#70. It doesn't work to have loads of money if your inner spiritual life is a desert, if you have no freedom beyond chasing more and more cash. Quality of life is as vital as heaps of money.

Stuart Wilde

#71. Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.

Billy Graham

#72. The free worker receives a wage; the slave an education, food, care, clothing; the money that the master spends to keep the slave is drained little by little and in detail; one hardly perceives it.1

Alexis De Tocqueville

#73. Happiness is nothing but good health and freedom, and money is the single best way you can buy your freedom.

Scott Adams

#74. Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about being a poet difficult, but it also means freedom to write whatever you want to write, however you want to write it.

Garth Greenwell

#75. Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the freedom multiplier.

Tim Ferriss

#76. Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or freedom and places it under the sword is tyranny and the enemy of all.

Jaime Buckley

#77. I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.

Elie Tahari

#78. Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money away, and then you can live with much more freedom.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#79. Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal.
As for me, I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

Christopher McCandless

#80. Inflation made it possible to divert the fury of the people to 'speculators' and 'profiteers'. Thus it proved itself an excellent psychological resource of the destructive and annihilist war policy.

Ludwig Von Mises

#81. What was money when one's life was at stake? We had learned that nothing lasts and that no value is absolute. The only exception to that rule: freedom.

Miklos Nyiszli

#82. Yes. And I'm rich now when I think about it. I own myself, and I'm worth eight hundred dollars. I wish I had the money. Then I wouldn't ever want anything else

Mark Twain

#83. There's very little money and very little freedom in doing it [webshows] for a major corporation. Doing things independantly is and always will be better I think, due to the recalcitrance of stubborn network hands.

Michael Cera

#84. When the pocket becomes empty and the mind becomes full of issues, just think of something distinctive!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#85. We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#86. Whether we make our own money or rely on someone else, many of us would rater pretend our financial matters don't exist. Or we hope they'll just take care of themselves somehow. My ex-husband was like that. He always said, "I bank by prayer. I go to the ATM and pray that money will come out.

Nancy Levin

#87. Any idiot can build bombs. Our Trinity sits not on some desert sand seared into glass at an abandoned, sad pillar of stones. It's in our heads and our hearts, it's in our genes, this beautiful, gorgeous marriage of money, freedom and ingenuity.

Bill Whittle

#88. Or some people may yearn for riches, not for money's sake but in order to send their children to college or provide themselves with the freedom and time for study and reflection which are necessary for their own spiritual growth. It is not power or money that such people love; it is humanity.

M. Scott Peck

#89. With independents[films] you sort of make them on the go and there is that little bit more creative freedom. You don't have the money to slow down!

Jennifer Aniston

#90. I did make some money, the first money that I ever made, doing this last one, and it's an extraordinary feeling just being given the freedom to do something.

Duncan Roy

#91. He who cares to go to the trouble of demonstrating the uselessness of index numbers for monetary theory and the concrete tasks of monetary policy will be able to select a good proportion of his weapons from the writings of the very men who invented them.

Ludwig Von Mises

#92. Determinants of prices have their effect only through the medium of the subjective estimates of individuals; and the extent to which any given factor influences these subjective estimates can never be predicted.

Ludwig Von Mises

#93. Money's the cheapest thing. Liberty and freedom is the most expensive.

Bill Cunningham

#94. The more we associate experience with cash value, the more we think that money is what we need to live. And the more we associate money with life, the more we convince ourselves that we're too poor to buy our freedom.

Rolf Potts

#95. The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

Thomas Sowell

#96. It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

Henri Nouwen

#97. Pick a profession that will give you enough money to give you economic freedom. It is nice to pick a career that really taxes your mind. Use your mind in new and creative ways. You will find that your mind will develop and become stronger.

Frederick Lenz

#98. The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.

Russell Simmons

#99. If we have the sense to give (broadcasting) freedom and intelligent direction, if we save it from exploitation by vested interests of money or power, its influence may even redress the balance in favour of the individual.

Hilda Matheson

#100. When the fear of losing money and failing becomes too painful inside, a fear we both have, he chooses to seek security and I choose to seek freedom.

Robert T. Kiyosaki