“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”– Adlai E. Stevenson Related Quotes “A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”– Robert Frost “The public school has become the established church of secular society.”– Ivan Illich “Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.”– Ralph Waldo Emerson