In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
Man is not free unless government is limited.
Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable.
Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.
People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
We are free today because we are the stronger; we will be slaves again when the government becomes the stronger.
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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