The best Quotes on Earth!

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

John Philpot Curran

Tags: 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

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

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Tags: lies freedom alternative-facts free-speech freedom-of-thought lies-politics

I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free.

It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and...

Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.

Tony Kushner

Tags: freedom liberation

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Joseph Heller

Tags: freedom freedom-of-thought criticism independence

But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.

John Steinbeck

Tags: choice freedom language freedom-of-choice hebrew timshel

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Robert A. Heinlein

Tags: morality freedom law rules

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

Tags: 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

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