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- In the state of nature, indeed, all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the laws.
- Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755), The Spirit of Laws, 1748
- My definition of a free society is where it's safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, Michigan, 1952
- Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
- Potter Stewart
- Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- Commandment Number One of any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different.
- David Grayson
- Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.
- Gunnar Myrdal
- A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Society is like the air, necessary to breathe, but insufficient to live on.
- Santayana
- The best things and the best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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