Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-08-22 Aug 22, 2018If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.~ Hans EysenckYou thus have no rights at all over our freedom of thought, you princes; no jurisdiction over that which is true or false; no right to determine the objects of our inquiry or to set limits to it; no right to hinder us from communicating the results, whether they be true or false, to whomever or however we wish.~ Johann Gottlieb FichteThe function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.~ Thomas I. Emerson Aug 21, 2018I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.~ Calvin CoolidgeWithout free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people.~ Charles BradlaughThe liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure his purpose, without an attorney at one elbow and a counsel at the other. From minds thus subdued by the fear of punishment, there could issue no works of genius to expand the empire of human reason.~ Thomas Erskine Aug 20, 2018The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.~ Clarence S. DarrowThe Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority... It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.~ Frank I. CobbWisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates... to cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them. ~ John Adams Aug 17, 2018No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.~ Abraham LincolnThe truth is more important than the facts.~ Frank Lloyd WrightHonesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.~ Lemuel K. Washburn Aug 16, 2018The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.~ R. D. LaingHonesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.~ Thomas JeffersonHe is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.~ William Cowper Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print