My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. |
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow it wherever the search may lead us. |
Newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff -- and print the chaff. |
Freedom rings where opinions clash. |
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. |
A hungry man is not a free man. |
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than the freedom to stagnate. |
It is a common heresy and its graves are to be found all over the earth. It is the heresy that says you can kill an idea by killing a man, defeat a principle by defeating a person, bury truth by burying its vehicle. |
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. |
We in America today would limit our freedom of expression and of conscience. In the name of unity, they would impose a narrow conformity of ideas and opinion… Only a government which fights for civil liberties and equal rights for its own people can stand for freedom in the rest of the world. |
