“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961] ” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. — Adlai E Stevenson Copy Share Image
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
I think there's a difference between calling people out and understanding the role that the press plays in a free society. — Sean Spicer Copy Share Image
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society. — Kim Campbell Copy Share Image
“The freedom to entertain and express opinions, however offensive to others, has been regarded since Locke as the sine qua non of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given… — Henry Fairlie Copy Share Image
Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government… An armed society is… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
But let it not be said that we did nothing. Let not those who love the power of the welfare/warfare state label… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Collective unity is not the result of the brotherly love of the faithful for each other. The loyalty of the true believer… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed,… — William E. Simon Copy Share Image
[Muslims] who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“As Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990 I had the opportunity to put these convictions into effect in economic policy - We… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“This democracy we have is a precious thing. For all the arguments and all the doubts and all the cynicism that’s out… — Obama Copy Share Image
“Government surveillance, with its invasive reach into the private lives of citizens, is an egregious violation of the principles that underpin a… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
“It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free society by reference… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you --… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“[T]here is both an intrinsic and instrumental value to privacy. Intrinsically, privacy is precious to the extent that it is a component… — John W. Whitehead Copy Share Image
“We live in a world in which people are censured, demoted, imprisoned, beheaded, simply because they have opened their mouths, flapped their… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Still, as a straight person, you might say, "This just isn't my fight." No, it isn't. Unless you care about the kind… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.” — Orrin Woodward Copy Share Image
The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Whatever differences we have, tolerating others' opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society. — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
“All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society. — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
In the free society envisioned by the founders, schools are held accountable to parents, not federal bureaucrats. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image