Free Society Quotes

172 Free Society quotes by 121 unique authors

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a… — Noam Chomsky
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law. — Henry David Thoreau
To be born in a free society and not to be born free is to be born into a lie. To be told by co-citizens… — James A. Baldwin
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the… — J. William Fulbright
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take… — Wendy O. Williams
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one… — Richard M. Nixon
Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society. — Felix Frankfurter
The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment. — Felix Frankfurter
The black masses want not to be shrunk from as though they are plague-ridden. They want not to be walled up in slums, in the… — Malcolm X
Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the… — George W. Bush
But I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to… — George W. Bush
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe… — Coretta Scott King
The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions… — Alan Barth
What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. — Friedrich August von Hayek
Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential conditions… — Friedrich August von Hayek
There are just two rules of governance in a free society: Mind your own business. Keep your hands to yourself. — P.J. O'Rourke
In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves. — Walter E. Williams
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none… — Thomas Szasz
The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority… — William E. Simon
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an… — Barry Goldwater
The media insist that crime is the major concern of the American public today. In this connection they generally push the point that a disarmed… — Jeff Cooper
A free society that allows each individual to seek his or her own selfish ends (without deliberately trying to harm anyone else) will produce a… — Stuart Kauffman
The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a… — Ed Asner
We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of character, possessing a… — Unknown Author

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