free society

is a society in which it is hard for good people to do good but more importantly, it is hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil.

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 Milton Friedman

is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai Stevenson

is impossible without the possibility of silence: Without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop. Herbert Marcuse

is a kind of social organization that requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tentacles and get bad results elsewhere.

I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere. Milton Friedman

is free from the fear of the pathology of the state, so we create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over.

People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

is a society in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction.

Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

's ultimate test is how it treats its dissidents, not how it treats its good, obedient, compliant citizens.

Tradition must be a springboard to the future, not an easy chair for resting

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free society