Accepting Quote by Thomas Paine

A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they…

— John Stuart Mill

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

— Andrew Joseph Galambos

“Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“Freedom in society is gauged by our success in getting what we want and conditioned by status and power, by race, class and gender.…

— Gabor Maté

A people may prefer a free government, but if, from indolence, or carelessness, or cowardice, or want of public spirit, they are unequal to…

— John Stuart Mill

Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers.…

— Etienne de La Boetie

A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It…

— Milton Friedman

One cannot live in society and be free from society.

— Vladimir Lenin

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

— Robert Frost

“There is something beyond freedom that people need: work, love, belief in something, commitment to something. Freedom is not enough.It's necessary but it'd not…

— Lev Grossman

Only in a free society do individuals have the best chance to seek virtue, strive for excellence, improve their economic well-being, and achieve personal…

— Ron Paul

Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a…

— Reinhold Niebuhr