Free society Quotes

An armed society is a free society.

— Howie Carr

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

— Adlai Stevenson

Secrecy is never so appealing as in a free society.

— Shana Alexander

In a free society, how can you commit a crime against yourself?

— Jesse Ventura

Sometimes You Have to Pay a Heavy Price to Live in a Free Society

— Chelsea Manning

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

— Vladimir Lenin

Free market never succeeded without free men and free society.

— Li Lu

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

— Adlai E Stevenson

There is no reason, in a free society, that farmers shouldn’t be allowed to raise hemp. Hemp is a good product.

— Ron Paul

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

— Vladimir Putin

Whatever differences we have, tolerating others' opinions is a prerequisite to a functioning and free society.

— Dave Rubin

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.

— Salman Rushdie

“Free society's organize around the "invisible hand" while Force society's organize around the State's "visible fist.”

— Orrin Woodward

The definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

— Adlai E Stevenson

Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

— Henry David Thoreau

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

— Kim Campbell

If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

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

A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of…

— Clarence Thomas

“Integrity is the fundamental premise for military service in a free society. Without integrity, the moral pillars of our military strength, public…

— Charles A. Gabriel

As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free…

— Os Guinness

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to…

— Cal Thomas

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you…

— George W. Bush

We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play.…

— Ray Bradbury

A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing…

— Milton Friedman

It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe…

— George W. Bush

We must make the building of a free society once more an intellectual adventure, a deed of courage… Unless we can make…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change… I don't think right-wing…

— Newt Gingrich

“Unfortunately, the truth is that in universities the world over, the tremendous analytical power and insights of market economics are unappreciated. For…

— Henry Manne

We live in a free society, and freedom means freedom for everybody. We shouldn't be able to choose and say, 'You get…

— Dick Cheney

No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of…

— John F. Kennedy

“Well, it's true that the anarchist vision in just about all its varieties has looked forward to dismantling state power―and personally I…

— Noam Chomsky

There are some serious limitations in Mo Yan's situation as a writer in China today - just as there are for Jia…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Anarchism alone stresses the importance of the individual, his possibilities and needs in a free society. Instead of telling him that he…

— Emma Goldman

“Politically we feel alienated, rejected, and hopeless. The chasm between the people and their political representatives has widened to a terrifying degree.…

— Saul D. Alinsky

“I think maybe the classic formulation was by David Hume in "Of the First Principles of Government," where he pointed out that…

— Noam Chomsky

“This entails certain corollaries on which true individualism once more stands in sharp opposition to the false individualism of the rationalistic type.…

— Friedrich A. Hayek

“That's the trouble with the world we live in, Dana. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really…

— Robert Muchamore

“We had better want the consequences of what we believe or disbelieve, because the consequences will come! . . . But how…

— Neal A. Maxwell