Quote by Mario Monti
If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of t

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration. – Mario Monti

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So I think democracy, in the long-term, in our countries will survive if it comes to be associated with leadership, will not survive if democracy plus media brings to us more and more followship rather than leadership. – Mario Monti

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Leadership
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Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund. – Mario Monti

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Future
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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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Americas greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive. – John W. Gardner

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Freedom

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. – Louis D. Brandeis

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Freedom

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose ones government is not necessarily to secure freedom. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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Freedom

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement. – Jeanette Winterson

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Freedom

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There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil. – Hannah Arendt

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Every duty which is bidden to wait returns with seven fresh duties at its back. – Charles Kingsley

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