Free Society Quotes

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F. Kennedy

Society, Help, Rich

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities.
Nelson Mandela

Society, Live, Together

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.
Ron Paul

Government, Society, Free

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Ron Paul

Society, Important, Free

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Cal Thomas

Change, Government, Society

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Society, Free, Wish

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Society, Words, Free

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
Walter Lippmann

Men, Society, Justice

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 very free society.
Noam Chomsky

Great, Freedom, Society

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.
Tim Robbins

Society, Yourself, Enemy

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
Rand Paul

Society, Free, Means

Most of Roosevelt's innovations have been the law of the land for 70 years now, and yet we are still a free society free enough, that is, to allow tens of thousands of protesters to gather on the National Mall and to broadcast their slogans and speeches to the world via C-SPAN.
Thomas Frank

Society, Law, Enough

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.
Natan Sharansky

Fear, Society, Someone

The only way of living in a free society is to feel that you have the right to say and do stuff.
Salman Rushdie

Society, Living, Free

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.
Jonathan Sacks

Society, Children, Free

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
Vladimir Putin

History, Society, Simple

I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian

Society, Live, Free

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
Natan Sharansky

Fear, Society, Free

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.
Natan Sharansky

Fear, Society, Real

By focusing once and for all on helping the Palestinians build a free society, I have no doubt that an historic compromise between Israelis and Palestinians can be reached and that peace can prevail.
Natan Sharansky

Peace, Society, Doubt

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
J. William Fulbright

Freedom, Society, Living

The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.
John McCain

Society, Political, Free

As you have fewer and fewer voices in a democracy, in a free society, it's not good to limit the number of voices.
Michael Moore

Good, Society, Democracy

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.
Felix Frankfurter

Freedom, Society, End

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.
Todd Tiahrt

Government, Future, Society

We can't just have mainstream behavior on television in a free society, we have to make sure we see the whole panorama of human behavior.
Jerry Springer

Society, Human, Free

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
Daniel Dennett

Courage, Society, Past

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson

Society, Free, Safe

We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society.
Hal Holbrook

Society, Live, Mind

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.
Alexander Downer

Society, Free, Wish

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