“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
I've devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It's those principles, the principles… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that… — Wendy O. Williams Copy Share Image
The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having… — Shirley Chisholm 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
Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I think that when we believe that something is right, there's a serious ambivalence about it. On one hand, you say, because… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else. — William Beveridge 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
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
Clearly we must do everything we can to protect our country from the serious potential of another terrorist attack, but we can… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing… — Milton Friedman 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
In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, however, we are in… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
You can't talk about the environment, you can't talk about political correctness, affirmative action and all the other innumerable things that freedom… — Russell Means 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
Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path,… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I'm embarrassed for us as a free society that we actually want people punished for saying things we don't like. — Jim Norton Copy Share Image
In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In my opinion the immediate goal of even committed anarchists should be to defend some state institutions, while helping to pry them… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Limited government is not a means to liberty, it is an end. That is to say, there are always going to be… — Richard D. Baris Copy Share Image
The radicals who perpetrated the Charlie Hebdo attack were not motivated by Western imperialism but by members of a free society violating… — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
