The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
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If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
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We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have… — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
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I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
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“Some Christian lawyers—some eminent and stupid judges—have said and still say, that the Ten Commandments are the foundation of all law. Nothing… — Robert G Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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“The least step forward in the domain of free thought and individual life has been achieved in all ages to the accompaniment… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Grimm: Cat and Mouse (#1.18)" (2012) Edgar Waltz: You may think I'm a monster, but what I am is necessary. No society… — Grimm Copy Share Image
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Only those who have lived all their lives under the dark clouds of vague, undefined fears can appreciate the joy of a… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
America's bastions of free thought have become hubs of suppression. If you're on the left, riot in the streets without repercussion. But… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
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“Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
“Bertrand Russell: The expression “free thought” is often used as if it meant merely opposition to the prevailing orthodoxy. But this… — Jonathan M.S. Pearce Copy Share Image
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“the case is even stronger, and the parallel with madness is yet more strange. For it was our case against the exhaustive… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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