All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
“Aggressive law enforcement is absolutely integral to authoritarianism. The way it is instituted in a free society is simple. The free man… — M.B. Watson Copy Share Image
There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 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
“Only if we understand why and how certain kinds of economic controls tend to paralyze the driving forces of a free society,… — Friedrich Hayek Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, the truth is that in universities the world over, the tremendous analytical power and insights of market economics are unappreciated. For… — Henry Manne Copy Share Image
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 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“And as John F. Kennedy described the ideals behind what would become the Peace Corps, he issued a challenge to the students… — Obama Copy Share Image
“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination,” he told the court. “I have cherished the ideal… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are… — Archibald Cox 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
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
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
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
“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
“Aggressive law enforcement is absolutely integral to authoritarianism. The way it is instituted in a free society is simple. The free man… — M.B. Watson 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
