If we do not believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.
This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups...
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
Liberty is always unfinished business.
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
So free we seem so fettered fast we are!
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in...
Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer my friend is blowin' in the...
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country but he that stands it now deserves the love and t...
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard...
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.
Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
For two decades the state has been taking liberties and these liberties were once ours.
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
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