My Definition of a Free Society Is a Society Where It Is Safe to Be Unpopular

There is a twofold liberty...The first is common to man with beasts and other creatures....The other kind of liberty I call civil or federal; it may alsoWho is more to be pitied, a writer be termed moral... it is a liberty to that onlybound which and gagged by policemen or one is good, just, and honest. living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? --John Winthrop, 1645 Deputy Governor of Massachusetts ― Kurt Vonnegut

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. --Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952 ― Jim Morrison

For I must be traveling on, now 'Cause there's too many places I've got to see The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win. But, if I stayed here with you... Things just couldn't be the same --Leonid Brezhnev, former Soviet leader 'Cause I'm as free as a bird now And this bird, you can not change -- Lyndard Skynard, "Free Bird"

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.

― Mahatma Gandhi ― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or It is the preoccupation with possessions, more because you have seen more of the world than I than anything else that prevents us from living have; your claim to superiority depends on the use freely and nobly. you have made of your time and experience.

― Bertrand Russell

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

Most people do not really want freedom, because If a free society cannot help the many who are freedom involves responsibility, and most people poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. are frightened of responsibility. – President John F. Kennedy, inauguaral address ― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the ― Henry David Thoreau greatest threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

--Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

There’s no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it underestimated. when terrible things happen...

– Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamor --Ron Paul A society that puts equality before freedom will – Babylonian Talmud get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

– Milton Friedman Don't try to strike everyone out. Strikeouts are boring! Besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls – it's more democratic.

– Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) to Nuke The only freedom which deserves the name is that LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), “Bull Durham” of pursuing our own good in our own  way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. --John Stuart Mill, on Liberty

Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.

– Alan Dean Foster, To the Vanishing Point

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

– Horace Greeley, abolitionist newspaper editor

The one who does an act because he or she is commanded is greater than than the one who does an act without being commanded.