Free Society Quotes - Page 6

• What [he] is apparently objecting to is that not everyone takes his beliefs seriously. Indeed, some don't seem to respect his beliefs at all, and actually poke fun at them. Well, I have news for [him]: that's the nature of a free society. Opinions don't necessarily merit respect; they must earn respect in the marketplace of ideas.

  Jeffrey Shallit

  Respect, Fun, Ideas

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• 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 state in which everyone's interest is optimized without any individual knowing in advance what that state might be.

  Stuart Kauffman

  Selfish, Knowing, Individuality

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• Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Taken, Choices

  Estados Unidos. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Estados Unidos. Presidente (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan, Estados Unidos. Oficina del Registro Federal (1983). "Ronald Reagan"

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• If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.

  William J. Brennan

  Government, Understanding, Different

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• 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

  Oportunidad, Pensamiento, Personas

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• Los Fundadores advirtieron que una sociedad libre depende de un pueblo virtuoso y moral. La crisis actual refleja que sus preocupaciones estaban justificadas.

  Ron Paul

  People, Moral, Justified

  Farewell Address to the U.S. Congress, delivered 14 November 2012

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• The concept of equal pay for equal work is not only an impossible task, it can only be accomplished with the total rejection of the idea of the voluntary contract... The idea that a businessman must hire anyone and is prevented from firing anyone for any reason he chooses, and in the name of rights, is a clear indication that the basic concept of a free society has been lost.

  Ron Paul

  Equal Pay, Names, Ideas

  "Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200 Years". Book by Ron Paul, 1987.

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• 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 free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Appreciate, Individuality

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• En una sociedad libre, uno no tiene que tratar con los irracionales. Uno es libre de evitarlos.

  Ayn Rand

  Libertad, Gente Estúpida, Sociedad

  Ayn Rand (1964). "La virtud del egoísmo", p.53, Penguin

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• 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, Reflection, Government

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• Según la Constitución de Estados Unidos, el gobierno federal no tiene autoridad para hacer "responsables" a los estados de sus resultados educativos... En la sociedad libre que imaginaron los fundadores, las escuelas son responsables ante los padres, no ante los burócratas federales.

  Ron Paul

  School, Government, Parent

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

  Vladimir Putin

  Simple, Pages, Path

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• 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

  Squares, Views, Being Free

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• Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

  Natan Sharansky

  Literature, Dissent, Protected

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

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Freedom Of Speech, Society, Principles

  The New York Times, January 19, 1962.

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• 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

  Thinking, Self, Enemy

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• Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fricción

  "Joseph Anton: A Memoir". Book by Salman Rushdie, September 2012.

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• Muy poca gente se preocupa realmente por la libertad, por la libertad, por la verdad, muy poca. Muy poca gente tiene agallas, el tipo de agallas del que tiene que depender una verdadera democracia. Sin gente con ese tipo de agallas, una sociedad libre muere o no puede nacer.

  Doris Lessing

  Real, Democracies Have, People

  Doris May Lessing (1994). "El cuaderno dorado", HarperCollins Publishers

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• You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

  Rick Santorum

  Reality, Government, Two

  Interview with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 8, 2011.

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• 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

  Wish, Liberty, Essentials

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by F.A. Hayek, Chap. 6: "Equality, Value and Merit," Routledge (p. 77), 1960.

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• In a free society, a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.

  Barney Frank

  Hurt, Government, People

  "CNN Newsroom" with Don Lemon, Kyra Phillips, transcripts.cnn.com. July 30, 2008.

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• 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

  Years, Law, Land

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• It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Would Be, Moral

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• Because federal hate crime laws criminalize thoughts, they are incompatible with a free society.

  Ron Paul

  Hate, Law, Crime

  "Unconstitutional Legislation Threatens Freedoms" by Ron Paul, May 9, 2007.

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• Considero que la experiencia psicodélica es un derecho de nacimiento, y no podemos tener una sociedad libre hasta que la gente sea libre de explorar su propia mente.

  Terence McKenna

  People, Mind, Psychedelic

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