“I came out of the Soviet Union no longer a communist, because I believed in personal freedom.”– Rose Wilder Lane Related Quotes “We’ve got to understand that the whole nature of the way American democracy guards its freedom has been changed.”– John Ashcroft “Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.”– Aneurin Bevan “The communitarians may say you’ve been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life – to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.”– Harry Browne