Democracy is the best revenge.
Benazir BhuttoTags: politics liberty freedom democracy
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty.
[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
Tags: libraries books liberty censorship freedom-of-thought banned-books bill-of-rights
The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.
James MadisonTags: science intelligence liberty education knowledge freedom media
There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
Walter LippmannTags: liberty lies lippman walter
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John MiltonTags: liberty freedom conscience freedom-of-speech argument
Here's what we're not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught - and it is a disgrace that you aren't - that these men and women were radicals for liberty; that they had a vision of equality that was a slap in the face of what the rest of their world understood to be the unchanging, God-given order of nations; and that they were willing to die to make that desperate vision into a reality for people like us, whom they would never live to see.
Naomi WolfTags: liberty equality democracy usa independence declaration subversive
Small tyrants, threatened by big,
sincerely believe
they love liberty.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
[Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]
Tags: liberty compassion rich wealth freedom society duty poor assistance development-aid moral-obligation social-security third-world
Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
Herb RittsTags: individuality liberty america usa expression civil-rights homosexuality americans gay-rights
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.
Edmund BurkeTags: truth liberty freedom virtue
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