 | My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
, Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952. |
| "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting."
- Alan Dean Foster
, "To the Vanishing Point". |
| "Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
- Albert Einstein
, 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950. |
| "The basis of a democratic state is liberty."
- Aristotle
, Politics. |
| "Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made."
- Barbara Hall
, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000. |
| "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. |
| "If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other."
- Carl Schurz
. |
| "Only the educated are free."
- Epictetus
, Discourses. |
| "In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
, Speech, September 22, 1936. |
| "The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
- Justice Anthony Kennedy
. |