Free Thought Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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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 doubting soul suddenly…
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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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 all men, irrespective…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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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. . . . The…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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I deny the right of Congress to force a slaveholding State upon an unwilling people. I deny their right to force a free State upon…
— Stephen A. Douglas
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In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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Who is journeying for freedom? The one who is already free. Thoughts are impediments to seeing your own face. Don't give rise to any thought,…
— H. W. L. Poonja
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It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate…
— William O. Douglas
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There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed.
— Horace Greeley
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It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of…
— Hubert Harrison
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Many of the Latter-day Saints have surrendered their independence; they have surrendered their free thought, politically, and we have got to get back to where…
— Heber J. Grant
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Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
— Euripides
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The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they…
— H. L. Mencken
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There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole…
— John Stuart Mill
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Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially…
— Savitri Devi
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No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old,…
— H. L. Mencken
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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 free thought, not…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.
— James Joyce
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It is the way, isn't it? With humans and free thought. They only learn through terrible mistakes. Free thought does not make wisdom. Instead it…
— Joel Shepherd
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A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat…
— William O. Douglas
Who Wrote These Free Thought Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Free Thought Quotes as follows: