If you say to people that they, as a matter of fact, can't protect their conversations, in particular their political conversations, I… — Whitfield Diffie Copy Share Image
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The privilege of a free society is that every man, woman, and child has the opportunity - and the obligation as a… — Dana Loesch Copy Share Image
Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Moreover, in the system of criminal punishment in the libertarian world, the emphasis would never be, as it is now, on "society's"… — Murray N. Rothbard Copy Share Image
There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
In a free society, every opportunity comes with three obligations. First, you must seize it. You must mold it into a work… — Roberto Goizueta Copy Share Image
The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of… — Ithiel de Sola Pool Copy Share Image
The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society… — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
What [he] is apparently objecting to is that not everyone takes his beliefs seriously. Indeed, some don't seem to respect his beliefs… — Jeffrey Shallit Copy Share Image
A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Terrorism thrives on a free society. The terrorist uses the feelings in a free society to sap the will of civilization to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The American Revolution was sparked by a series of taxes and tariffs on tea. More recently, the Thatcher and Reagan 'revolutions' were… — Priti Patel Copy Share Image
You cannot control the spending habits of people. It is a free society, after all, and people should have right to spend… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
We all know growth is absolutely vital to a free society. No one should want Australia to be a stag-nation: a nation… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Should it be prohibited for private entities such as a church, bed-and-breakfast or retirement neighborhood that doesn't want noisy children? Absolutely not.… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas. ... This right to receive information… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum." (Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American… — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about.… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I came to the United States because I valued living as a free person, one who is able to advocate in a… — Sami Al-Arian Copy Share Image
Creativity and innovation always builds on the past. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds upon it. Free societies… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I… — Gillian Roberts Copy Share Image
The proposition that Muslims are welcome in Britain if, and only if, they stop behaving like Muslims is a doctrine which is… — Roy Hattersley Copy Share Image
By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
“The right to vote is the foundation of our free society, and protecting that right is the single most important thing we… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I think that in free societies, and we're constantly talking about living in free societies, aren't we, in contradiction with unhappy people… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
![“What [he] is apparently objecting to is that not everyone takes his beliefs seriously. Indeed, some don't seem to respect his beliefs at all, and actually poke fun at them. Well, I have news for [him]: that's the nature of a free society. Opinions don't necessarily merit respect; they must earn…” quote by Jeffrey Shallit](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/81b/jeffrey-shallit-84814_belief_what-he-is-apparently-objecting-to-is-th_2207791.jpg)
