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| The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. | Edward M. Forster | 1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist |
| Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent. | Ferdinand De Saussure | 1857-1913, Swiss Linguist |
| We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, ''That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.'' You never heard a real American talk in that manner. | Frank Hague | |
| If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. | George Washington | 1732-1799, First President of the USA |
| Marks on paper are free -- free speech -- press -- pictures all go together I suppose. | Georgia O'Keeffe | American painter |
| The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. | Grace | Patricia) Kelly (1929-82, American Actress and Princess of Monaco |
| To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises. | Hannah Arendt | 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher |
| What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. | Hansell B. Duckett | |
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| Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while thou art free; Imprison it, lest it do thee. | John Hoskins | 1566-1638, British Lawyer, Wit |
| Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. | Marshall Lumsden | |
| The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-, South African Author |
| If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. | Noam Chomsky | 1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist |
| Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. | Noam Chomsky | 1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist |
| The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms. | Oscar Wilde | 1856-1900, British Author, Wit |
| Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free. | Ralph Waldo Emerson | 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist |
| Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning. | Rosenstock Huessy | |
| Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. | Salman Rushdie | 1948-, Indian-born British Author |
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| How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech. | Soren Kierkegaard | 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer |
| People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. | Soren Kierkegaard | 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer |
| Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. | Tatyana Tolstaya | |
| Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -- they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely. | Vissarion Belinsky | |
| Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. | Walt Whitman | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking. | Woodrow T. Wilson | 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA |
| It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behaviour, career, and sexual orientation. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA |
| America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
| To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. | Norman Thomas | 1884-1968, American Socialist Leader |
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| America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. | Woodrow T. Wilson | 1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA |
| And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. | George Gurdjieff | 1873-1949, Russian Adept, Teacher, Writer |
| That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing -- the truly democratic thing about it -- is that you don't even have to be a player to lose. | Barbara Ehrenreich | 1941-, American Author, Columnist |
| Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. | Chuang Tzu | c 369 BC-286 BC, Chinese Philosopher |
| Business is like war in one respect. If its grand strategy is correct, any number of tactical errors can be made and yet the enterprise proves successful. | General Robert E. Woods | President, Sears, Roebuck |
| We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. | Harry S. Truman | 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA |
| In the long run, free trade benefits everyone; in the short run it is bound to produce much pain. | Henry Hobhouse | British Writer |
| We Asians are the original Conservatives because for thousands of years we have believed in free enterprise¨ you have just stolen our philosophy. | Jayvantsinnji Gohel | 1915-1995, Chairman of the Anglo-Asian Conservative Society |
| What you get free costs too much. | Jean Anouilh | 1910-1987, French Playwright |
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| Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom. | John Enoch Powell | 1912-, British statesman, |
| The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state. | John Kenneth Galbraith | 1908-, American Economist |
| The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech. | John Mortimer | 1923-, British Barrister, Novelist |
| The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money. | Johnny Carson | 1925-, American TV Personality, Businessman |
| Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. | Joseph A. Schumpeter | 1883-1950, Austrian-American Economist |
| Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively. | Larry King | 1933-, American TV Personality, Prankster |
| No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. | Margaret Sanger | 1883-1966, American Social Reformer and Founder of the Birth Control Movement |
| The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improving the well-being of the people there is no contradiction with socialism. | Mikhail Gorbachev | 1931-, Soviet Statesman and President of USSR (1988-91) |
| History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. | Milton Friedman | 1912-, American Economist |
| Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. | Nelson Mandela | 1918-, South African President |
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