“Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.”– Jose Maria Aznar Related Quotes “True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.”– Milan Kundera “The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.”– Marian Wright Edelman “Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”– Thomas Moore