Community Quote by Adlai E. Stevenson

“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum." (Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)”

— Adlai E. Stevenson

“All ideas in a truly free society should always be open for discussion.”

— Bryant McGill

“A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A…

— Henry Steele Commager

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

— Henry Steele Commager

A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian…

— Michael Polanyi

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

— Friedrich August von Hayek

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value,

— Charles Koch

There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Free speech is a sign of a strong first-person plural, which enables people who disagree over fundamental things to live together in a condition…

— Roger Scruton

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.

— Stokely Carmichael