Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-09-07 Sep 5, 2008Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.~ ConfuciusThe important thing is never to stop questioning.~ Albert EinsteinHistory is a vast early warning system.~ Norman Cousins Sep 4, 2008Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access of all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored.~ American Library AssociationIntellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.~ James BillingtonSpiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.~ Ludwig von Mises Sep 3, 2008Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in history text books.~ Jimmy StewartIntellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.~ Robert G. IngersollMany are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others to persecute those who do reason.~ Voltaire Sep 2, 2008One 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 IbsenThose who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.~ Isaiah BerlinLiberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.~ Simone Weil Sep 1, 2008Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment.~ Ronald ReaganBear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.~ Thomas JeffersonThe real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk, but to the majority that does not want to listen.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print