19th century Quote by Fred Whitehead

“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

“The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution.”

— Bryant McGill

“I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Towards the end of the nineteenth century there appeared its two incredible figures; they were the pure Conservative and the pure Progressive; two figures…

— G.K. Chesterton

“In other words, in 1919 relatively few people could become disenchanted with liberal modernity because only a tiny minority had enjoyed the opportunity to…

— Pankaj Mishra

“In my opinion,' he said, 'the nineteenth century is passing for everyone except us.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I've come to realize that one of the perks of a free society is the inalienable right to debase ourselves in a wide variety…

— Steve Purcell

“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once known under…

— Ludwig von Mises

“…he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others,…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the…

— Milton Friedman

“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual…

— George Orwell

“What changed at the end of the eighteenth century, therefore, was not so much the discovery of a fundamentally new concept in human relations…

— Gavin Wright