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

José Martí

Tag: 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

Tag: 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

Tag: 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

Tag: 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

Tag: 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

Tag: 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

Tag: liberty freedom safety security privacy