Free Society Quotes - Page 6

Liberals have lost the soul. We haven't recognized the necessity of defending our own system at the level of ideas. We have to get people to treat the idea of a free society as a civic religion or a faith. We need to fight for that faith.

James M. Buchanan

Fighting, Ideas, People

Source: www.aims.ca

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I've devoted most of my life to understanding the principles that enable people to improve their lives. It's those principles, the principles of free society, that have shaped my life, my family, our company, and America.

Charles Koch

America, People, Understanding

Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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As we [with Edward Herman] discuss there [in Manufacturing Consent] and elsewhere, recognition of the importance of "manufacturing consent" has become an ever more central theme in the more free societies.

Noam Chomsky

Recognition, Theme, Importance

Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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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.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Reality, Conservative, Behalf

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

Ben Stein

People, Rich, Exception

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Freedom is won by relegating religion to a purely private sphere remote from the body politic. In fact, the establishment of a free society is predicated on the idea that religion must be surgically removed from culture.

William Anthony Donohue

Christian, Religious, Ideas

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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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Taken, Essence, Ideas

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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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Principles, Enforcement, Prevention

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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.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Issues, Imagination, Challenges

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Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

David Harsanyi

Ideas, Political, Offensive

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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.

Gillian Roberts

Thinking, Offering, House

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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.

Llewellyn Rockwell

Gun, Government, Self

"Guns and Liberty". Mises Daily, June 03, 1999.

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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.

John W. Gardner

Drama, Exercise, Play

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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.

Dinesh D'Souza

Meaningful, Profound, Doe

Dinesh D'Souza (2012). “What's So Great About America”, p.190, Regnery Publishing

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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.

Hodding Carter III

Trends, Matter, Virtue

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

Saul Alinsky

Spiritual, America, Arrogance

Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.183, Vintage

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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.

Bill Moyers

Struggle, Ordinary, Citizens

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Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

Thomas Jefferson

Religious, Wall, Religion

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A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.

Archibald Cox

Government, Self, Law

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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

Natan Sharansky

Peace, Evil, Lines

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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

Dream, Government, Liberty

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I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given to us. Do we know to this day who we killed in Iraq? I don't think so. If bringing war into the living room means that we as a people will say we don't want to do it that way anymore we want to figure out other ways to solve these conflicts, then I would say that photography and television have done us a great service.

Michael Deaver

Photography, War, Mean

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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

Natan Sharansky

Serious, Injustice, Courses

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The liberal arts inform and enlighten the independent citizen of a democracy in the use of his own resources.... They enlarge his capacity for self-knowledge and expand his opportunities for self-improvement.... They are the wellsprings of a free society.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Art, Independent, Opportunity

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The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor, cannot be concentrated while ownership of the non-human factor, capital, can be.

Louis O. Kelso

Wisdom, Two, Important

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