Eugen Richter Quotes

Germany, Politician
July 30, 1838 – March, 10, 1906.

Eugen Richter was a German politician and journalist in Imperial Germany. He was one of the leading advocates of liberalism in the Prussian Landtag and the German Reichstag.

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

Eugen Richter
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