A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom
Milton Friedman
Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die...
John Peter Altgeld
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Bergen Evans
Without Freedom of thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of speech
Benjamin Franklin
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Kierkegaard, Soren
I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to "Anarchy" or "Despotism".
George Washington
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
Jacob Bronowski
In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom.
James Graham Ballard
Today I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter\'s gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat, do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
Yasser Arafat
Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.
Robert C. Solomon
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams