“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
I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a… — Stephen A. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Freedom is not an idea; a philosophy written about freedom is not freedom. Either one is free or one is not. One… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I was ready to talk about... and I'm ready to die on the hills of due process, individualism, and free thought. — Will Cain Copy Share Image
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any… — Hubert Harrison Copy Share Image
“It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
To later Romans Ennius was the personification of the spirit of early Rome; by them he was called "The Father of Roman… — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight. — Homer Copy Share Image
“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
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
To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Censorship constrains art and limits its impact as much as it does with all free thought. — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
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
It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make… — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get… — Heber J. Grant 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
In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Let’s be honest. Who here thinks your professors can say what they really believe? It scares me to death, and should scare… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“We live in a nation where education and free thought are tantamount to treason, and I have to ask, under these circumstances,… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Islam is a close union of the spiritual and the temporal; it is the reign of a dogma, it is the heaviest… — B.R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
