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“The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.”

Firsts Lost Technology Struggle Conditions Century Communication Achievement Twenties Determine Confusion Print Domain Free Society New Technology Great Achievement Electronic Communication

Book:Technologies of Freedom

Source: Technologies of Freedom

“If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.”

Ifs Knows Humans Order Air Dignity Constitution Endure Preserves Heritage Free Society Human Dignity Framers

Author:William J. Brennan

“A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not because the importance the cash value, as it were) it has for outsiders but because it gives meaning to the lives of those who participate in it.”

Giving Values Rights Equal Tradition Importance Access Cash Outsiders Equal Rights Free Society

Author:Paul Feyerabend

“In a free society, you get what you celebrate.”

Celebrate Free Society

Author:Dean Kamen

“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.”

Ifs Use Wish Liberty Economy Economic Objects Particular Essentials Preserves Sufficient Justification Coercion Free Society Desirability

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“They who clamor loudest for freedom are often the ones least likely to be happy in a free society.”

Believer Free Society True Believer Clamor

Book:Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.”

People Rich Exception Get Rich Free Society

Author:Ben Stein

“We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms.”

Play Television Radio Newspapers Free Society

Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

“Muslims must learn that if they make belligerent and fanatical claims upon the tolerance of free societies, they will meet the limits of that tolerance.”

Ifs Limits Claims Tolerance Free Society

Author:Sam Harris

“Whatever its future success as a historical movement, anarchism will remain a fundamental part of human experience, for the drive for freedom is one of our deepest needs and the vision of a free society is one of our oldest dreams. Neither can ever be fully repressed; both will outlive all rulers and their States.”

Needs Humans States Dream Vision Movement Fundamentals Historical Anarchy Rulers Human Experience Anarchism Free Society Repressed Future Success

Book:Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

Source: Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism

“I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.”

People Mind Humans Important Liberty Accepting Starting Justify Reduction Free Society Starting Point Right To Life

Author:John Howard

“I like the idea that there's no censorship, because it's consistent with my views that we live in a free society and people ought to be able to express their views.”

People Ideas Able Views Ought Consistent Censorship Free Society

Author:Jerry Springer

“The characteristic feature of a free society is that it can function in spite of the fact that its members disagree in many judgments of value. Freedom really means the freedom to make mistakes.”

Mean Facts Values Mistake Members Judgment Function Features Characteristics Spite Making Mistakes Disagree Really Mean Free Society

Author:Ludwig von Mises

“Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop gouverner' are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.”

Kind War Facts Political Individual Economy Position Theory Fundamentals Slavery All Kinds Maxims Free Society Laissez Faire Political Economy

Book:Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

Source: Sociology for the South: or, The failure of free society

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

People Doe Principles Meaningful Attempting Find Me Free Society

Book:Meaning

Source: Meaning

“I believe only a free society can ever be truly secure. The goal should be to make terrorists feel threatened, not the American people.”

People Feels Should Believe I Believe Goal Terrorist Secure Threatened Free Society

Author:Ron Paul

“In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil”

People Men Hard Evil Pay One Man Good People Free Society Evil People

Book:An economist's protest: columns in political economy

Source: An economist's protest: columns in political economy

“It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.”

May Has Beens Ideas Force Growth Taken Depends Destruction Essence Foundation Cease Granted Carrie Free Society Taken For Granted

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds.”

Ifs Mind Imagination Challenges Issues Intellectual Tasks Foundation Ingenuity Free Society Implementation Philosophic

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“There is only one '' principle that can preserve a free society: namely, the strict prevention of all coercion except in the enforcement of general abstract rules equally applicable to all.”

Principles Preserves Abstract Strict Enforcement Coercion Free Society Prevention

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved”

Humans Moral Human Life Features Crucial Protected Free Society

Book:The Passion for Liberty

Source: The Passion for Liberty

“Our great progressive struggles have been waged to make sure ordinary citizens, and not just the rich and privileged, share in the benefits of a free society.”

Has Beens Struggle Rich Share Citizens Benefits Ordinary Progressive Privileged Free Society Ordinary Citizens

Author:Bill Moyers

“America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.”

America Spiritual Majors Threat Corporations Arrogance Our Future Free Society Slums

Book:Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

“The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government.... An armed society is a self-governing society, just as a disarmed people are vulnerable to arbitrary power of every kind.”

People Kind Self Government Danger Citizens Gun Vulnerable Arbitrary Governing Free Society

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.”

Thinking Wells I Can House Democracy Alive Century Information Achievement Concerned Absolutes Library Worthy Access Treasure Offering Free Society Backbone

Author:Gillian Roberts

“We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed to sustain it... We still have the cathedral of freedom but how long will it last without the faith?”

Long Stills Lasts Needed Built Conviction Dedication Free Society Cathedrals

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.”

Matter Values Virtue Industry Presses Ritual Trends Mockery Free Society Free Press

Author:Hodding Carter III

“The play of conflicting interests in a framework of shared purposes is the drama of a free society. It is a robust exercise, and often a noisy one. It is not for the faint-hearted, or the tidy-minded.”

Play Purpose Interest Exercise Drama Framework Hearted Free Society Noisy Robust Tidy Faint Hearted

Author:John W. Gardner

“The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.”

Doe Virtue Profound Strive Meaningful Pursuit Guarantees Free Society

Book:What's So Great About America

Source: What's So Great About America

“A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their own terms.”

Ends Names Individual Term Healthy Worthy Competent Free Society

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“I'm basically a libertarian. I don't want to restrict anyone from doing anything unless it's going to harm me. I don't want [to] pass a law stopping someone from smoking. It's just too dangerous. You lose the concept of a free society. Since we are genetically so diverse and our brains are so different, we're going to have different aspirations.”

Want Different Law Loses Brain Dangerous Concepts Harm Libertarian Aspiration Smoking Diverse Stopping Free Society

Author:James D. Watson

“We live in a free society, and freedom means freedom for everybody. We shouldn't be able to choose and say, 'You get to live free and you don't.' That means people should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into. Like Joe (Lieberman), I'm also wrestling with the extent to which there ought to be legal sanction of those relationships. I think we ought to do everything we can to tolerate and accommodate whatever kind of relationships people want to enter into.”

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Author:Dick Cheney

“If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like Iran's. The reason is that coerced virtues are not virtues at all.”

Ifs America Virtue Islamic Free Society Insufficient Islamic Society

Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“I think it's an intellectual duty for a person who lives in a free society to read material not only with which you agree, but with which you disagree. Because every so often somebody you think is wrong will actually turn out to be right.”

Thinking Persons Turns Materials Duty Intellectual Agree Disagree Free Society

Author:Tom Clancy

“A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people.”

People Long Doe Able Energy Ability Achieve Subjects Position Becoming Privilege Objectives Pursue Release Ambitious Free Society Suppressing

Author:Milton Friedman

“Now, it is sometimes said that medical care is too important to be left to the market, and that it is immoral to profit from the illnesses of others. I say medical care is too important to be left to the failed central plans of the political class. And as for profiting from providing medical care, we can never be reminded enough that in a free society, a profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.”

People Said Important Sometimes Enough Care Political Left Class Plans Bases Profit Illness Valuable Medical Providing Signals Immoral Free Society Medical Care

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically free society unless the major part of its economic resources are operated under a capitalistic private enterprise system.”

Economic Possibility Majors Capitalism Resources Enterprise Free Society Private Enterprise Economic Resources

Book:Tax limitation, inflation and the role of government

Source: Tax limitation, inflation and the role of government

“I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.”

Reality Position Conservative Behalf Conservatism Always Believe Free Society

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Young people are not raw material to be employed by the political class on behalf of whatever fashionable political, military, or social cause catches its fancy. In a free society, their lives are not the playthings of government.”

People Government Young Political Social Causes Class Military Materials Fancy Employed Behalf Fashionable Free Society Raw Materials

Author:Ron Paul

“Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to American public life.”

Way Long Law Interest Effort Gun Difficulty Intense Damage Encounters Privacy Users Regulation Gun Control Public Life Free Society Scrutiny Firearms Collateral Collateral Damage

Author:Daniel D. Polsby

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

Way Feels Stuff Free Society

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Individual freedom and drug laws contradict each other. In a genuinely free society, people are free to ingest whatever they want to ingest, no matter how harmful or destructive. What people ingest is none of the government's business. If drug users or drug addicts wish to get help, a free society provides the means to do so.”

People Ifs Want Mean Matter Helping Government Law Individual Wish Drug Destructive Users Addict Free Society Drug Addict Individual Freedom Drug Laws

Author:Jacob G. Hornberger

“Since humans are by nature tribal, the overall goal is to expand the concept of the tribe to include ALL members of the species, in a global free society.”

Humans Goal Members Concepts Species Tribes Free Society

Author:Michael Shermer

“Life in a free society...is heaven on earth to life in a socialist society such as Russia.”

Earth Heaven Society Russia Socialist Free Society Heaven On Earth

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Ever so subtly, without even alluding to the last obstacles preserved by earlier opinions that we now push out of our path, we effectively replace the goal of a discrimination-free society with the quite imcompatible goal of proportionate representation by race and by sex in the workplace.”

Lasts Sex Goal Race Opinion Path Obstacles Discrimination Representation Workplace Free Society

Author:Antonin Scalia

“In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.”

Terrible Responsible Guilty Free Society

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.”

Social Responsibility Acceptance Foundation Corporate Officials Trends Social Responsibility Free Society

Book:Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

Source: Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition

“At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.”

Self Risk Core Nerves Free Society Self Indulgent

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.”

Process Infinite Profit Motive Initiative Selection Ingenuity Free Society Housekeeping Profit Motive Good Housekeeping

Author:Winston Churchill

“... universal adoption of the institutions of the free society would better enable adaptation to climate both now and in the future. It would also ensure that, if at some point in the future, a real catastrophe, whether human-induced or otherwise (including climate change), does loom on the horizon, humanity would be in a better position to address it.”

Ifs Humans Doe Real Would Be Humanity Position Universal Institutions Climate Climate Change Including Addresses Horizon Adoption Catastrophe Adaptation Free Society

Author:Julian Morris

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