People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.
Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
If we have confidence in our own beliefs, we should not fear freedom of thought.
Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.
Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.
We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism, are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism-the right to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs, the right to protest, the right of independent thought.
I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.
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