Sentences with phrase «of free society»

Romney: Respect for private property, clear laws, fair enforcement, and the right to be heard before being deprived of money or property are bedrock principles of our free society.

Home ownership wasn't a financial reality for the family in Pakistan, but he soon came to regard it as «the root of a free society.»

If we, as an association, are not doing anything wrong... i.e that is if we are not doing anything that is anti-competitive, then why are we capitulating to these federal bastards who think they can dictate to responsible members of a free society who are acting within the bounds of democratic law!

It's mission is to encourage and stimulate excellence in journalism in the service of a free society.

It was made possible by a diverse coalition of organizations, people, and companies that believe the NSA's dragnet surveillance strikes at the heart of a free society.

Freedom of choice is American and the foundation of free society.

It is a basic principle of any free society that everything is permitted except that which is proscribed by law.

The independence of the Bar from the state in all its pervasive manifestations is one of the hallmarks of a free society.

As a result, the right to freedom of speech in the form of the right to discuss, debate and indeed lampoon religion is a fundamental feature of a free society, but the same arguments can not be applied to discussion of race...»

«Protection of sources is the linchpin of a free press, and a free press is the cornerstone of a free society,» says Sukanya Pillay, Executive Director and General Counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

The global climate scandal and the crisis in Western science and in Western forms of government have simply confirmed a warning from the former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower — in his farewell address to the nation on 17 Jan 1961 — that a federally funded scientific - technological elite might one day take control of government policy and pose a serious threat to «the supreme goals of our free society»: http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html

Thanks to Climategate, the public now grasps the danger that a federally funded scientific - technological poses to «the supreme goals of our free society».

After all, a free, accurate, and objective press is widely regarded as the cornerstone of a free society and integral to upholding an informed public — as opposed to a venue for intentionally stirring up fear and anger over that which is unknown or uncertain.

We're loving the animation by British artist Robert Grieves on the recently released Mark of a Free Society clip.

In most respects, one society has to a significant extent emerged in the sunlight of a system of legal free speech that is responsive to the needs of a free society, especially because of the theory of the law as handed down by its highest court.

Our founding documents and the values of our free society should not just be taught, but understood by every student who comes out of a Florida school.»

The seminar, held at Brown University, explores the historical, economic, and philosophical foundations of a free society.

The issue of pre-charge detention became a symbolic battle between civil liberties activists and the Home Office under Labour, with many observers noting that the government had effectively scrapped habeas corpus, considered by many constitutional historians to be the foundation of a free society.

I disagree with the analysis that came out of it, which assumes an inherent conflict between Islam and the principles of a free society.

By the way, why do so many politicians - especially the young and ambitious - need to be reminded that civil rights are not some kind of bonus, granted to a «lobby» with an agenda, but a defi ning characteristic of the free society which they have been elected to serve?

A third reason for questioning economic growth is that as a means to an end, green republicans focus on the threshold beyond which the pursuit of economic growth does not add to human flourishing, or a healthy democratic polity, and associated forms of active citizenship and the civic fabric of a free society.

On the far side of the older argument over the compatibility of Catholicism and democracy, this book seeks to convince us that the principles and practices of the free society are made necessary by Catholic teaching.

The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of a symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason.

These accommodations arguably impose a burden on third parties, yet courts have always viewed such burdens as necessary to the protection of a free society.

After all, it was through political and legal struggles over many years, and as a result of compromises, that other Western democracies recognized the pluralistic nature of a free society and adopted policies protecting the rights of parents and of educators to maintain and receive public funding for faith - based schools.

We had to steel ourselves to speak forcefully about the virtues of a free society.

It is a choice faced by all the citizens of this free society.

Richard John Neuhaus reports that, according to the translators of a new book by Rocco Buttiglione, Williams» book contains the suggestion that «because Wojtyla was a Pole writing under a totalitarian regime, he did not understand the American mind and the principles of the free society.»

Conant, who had overseen the Manhattan Project, saw our competition with the Soviets as a technical challenge, not just in the development of weapons but in the scientific management of a free society.

From the perspective of James Madison's observations about factions and freedom in Federalist No. 10, for example, the respect for tradition and the flourishing of faith is not a glitch but a feature of a free society, which encourages the development of a variety of human types.

Justice Frankfurter spoke of the «agencies of mind and spirit which may serve to gather up the traditions of the people,» and said that these concerned a «continuity of a treasured common life,» and that the «ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.»

The art of free society consists, first, in the maintenance of the symbolic code, and secondly, in fearlessness of revision.

Teachers are not at liberty to teach in a manner that undermines the very foundations of the free society.

The ecumenical movement articulated as social middle axiom the idea of free society, the idea of responsible society, and the idea of just, participatory, and sustainable society, and then the idea of justice, peace and integrity of creation throughout its recent history.

I disagree but that is the beauty of a free society unlike Islamic theocracies.

It is the essential vulnerable nature of a free society that we all walk down the sidewalk trusting in strangers we don't know who might be carrying a small nuclear device and looking like a regular person.

Nat Hentoff's lived a full life writing not only about jazz, but about the principles of a free society.

Religious liberty is plainly essential for the endurance of our free society and for the protection of the rights and freedoms of the many millions of Americans who dissent from the caustic Gnosticism that increasingly dominates our culture.

Our vital commitment to religious liberty must not blind us to this basic, daunting fact: Religious liberty is as much a product as a precondition of our free society.

That is an entire conception of the meaning of a free society that goes well beyond toleration and freedom of religion.

What James Madison described as «that diabolical, hell - conceived principle of persecution» remains a primary obstacle to realizing this vision of the free society.

Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

Then, said Murray, it might be up to Catholics to provide a moral and theological rationale for the constitutional order of a free society.

During an internal investigation of officer wrongdoing, Montreal police trampled over a cornerstone of a free society.

No matter how liberal you want to be, at the end of the day, fiscal discipline is the fundamental predicate of a free society,» he said.

«For me, it's an exciting opportunity to participate in something that's a pillar of a free society.»

That is the nature of a free society.»

«Newspapers, and in particular The Washington Post, are important components of free societies,» Bezos told employees in September 2013, shortly after announcing plans to buy the paper.

However, the moral prerequisites and purposes of democratic capitalism are rarely articulated, and are frequently ignored, even by the religious leaders of free societies.

Science is not as robust as the avid Popperian would like to think but depends crucially for its effectiveness on the wider freedoms of free societies.