Of all the religions in the world, perhaps the religion of liberty is the only faith capable of purity.
no people can be both ignorant and free.
A thinker can truly think only when there is true freedom of thought.
I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you...
Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.
It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.
Thought is free.
First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech m...
I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.
Those who have suffered in the hands of others,know what it is to be free.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
The free-will of man cannot impune the sovereignty of God, and conversely the sovereignty of God would not impune the free-will of men".
Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.
I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight shines brightly, I can stand under the sun's rays and everything I have imprinted of myself...
Only knowledge and truth may result in freedom of mind.
We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.
It is not possible for others to keep us prisoners if we want to be free
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be j...
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.