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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

John Philpot Curran

Stichwörter: liberty misattributed freedom misquote

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.

Thomas L. Friedman

Stichwörter: politics liberty freedom america capitalism economics united-states usa

We light the oven so that everyone may bake bread in it.

José Martí

Stichwörter: liberty inspiration

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us."

[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]

William O. Douglas

Stichwörter: liberty freedom democracy freedom-of-thought first-amendment freedom-of-speech

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Søren Kierkegaard

Stichwörter: intelligence liberty free-will freedom stupidity free-speech civil-rights

One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

Henrik Ibsen

Stichwörter: liberty

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Stichwörter: liberty independence-of-thought

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

Stichwörter: politics liberty society war democracy loss totalitarianism fascism

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Stichwörter: liberty freedom safety security privacy