“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
Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate… — Nazanin Boniadi 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
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the… — James Bryant Conant Copy Share Image
We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama… — Jerry Springer Copy Share Image
True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town… — Natan Sharansky Copy Share Image
“A steady recognition that the evils which prevent the fullness of moral development are precisely the elements which are also the source… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
If you go against someone, you say, you can't vote for these Democrats, they don't have good values, they're not good people,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
The beauty of a free society is that someone slightly less gifted who works harder than usual can rise; the burden of… — Ben Shapiro 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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
“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
The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives. — Israel Kirzner Copy Share Image
As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.” — Rick Warren 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
People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer,… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image