The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
This is the greatest society in all of human history the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition the collective hopes of our society.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
Swedes are such a civilised perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net a huge middle class free education free health care. People are very polite they wait their turn. They're not too loud they're not too quiet but sometimes it's a little too perfect.
Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status.
It is important for women to have a choice to have an opportunity to plan their families because if they don't the Republicans have said this is an ownership society. You are on your own and they're going to begrudge that child everything from WIC to a Pell Grant to health insurance.
Nor is it the least advantage to health accruing from such a way of life that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice than persons who live in crowded society.
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
As musicians and artists it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment I really mean the industry that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.
We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients but also the health of our entire society.
Yes Democrats can prove that America pays more for health care than other countries yes they have won the dispute that private health insurance is needlessly expensive. But what they've lost is the argument that we are a society.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer unless under compulsion from society.
It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
The United States are a political state or organized society whose end is government for the security welfare and happiness of all who live under its protection.
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.