Free Discussion Quotes

12 quotes by 10 authors

The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error… — Henry Steele Commager
Free discussion is the only necessary Constitution - the only necessary Law of the Constitution. — Richard Carlile
There is one class of men, whom it especially behoves to be tenacious of the right of free discussion. I mean the poor. — Gerrit Smith
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution… — Godfried Danneels
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent or self-satisfied; they are, if… — Abraham Flexner
The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion. — Learned Hand
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth. — Thomas Huxley
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to… — George Soros
The theory of the free press is not that the truth will be presented completely or perfectly in any one instance, but that the truth… — E E Cummings
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. — Thomas Jefferson
In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of… — Thomas Jefferson
Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. — Gerrit Smith

Who Wrote These Free Discussion Quotes

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