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Historically, professors have defended tenure as a way to protect their individualistic thought. But tenure can also be used as a club to wield…

— Ben Shapiro

“Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at the universities,…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The phrase 'academic freedom' is often used carelessly: here is a work that will allow a more careful conversation about those many crucial issues…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

— Immanuel Kant

“The intrinsic nature of the power authorized was so little realized that this was called "free education," the most absolute contradiction of facts by…

— Isabel Paterson

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right…

— Albert Einstein

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell…

— Glenn Beck

When a profession is protected by academic freedom and tenure, it tends to turn inward. To a large extent that's good.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Do we not find freedom along the guiding lines of discipline?

— Yehudi Menuhin

Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important…

— Donald Kennedy

I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism, or any other minority…

— Richard M. Nixon

The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It…

— Andre Breton