Able Quote by Elmer Davis

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything…

— George Orwell

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here…

— Samuel Johnson

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

— Jose Marti

Truth and, by consequence, liberty, will always be the chief power of honest men.

— Madame de Stael

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember,…

— Charles Evans Hughes

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...”

— John Adams

Even despots accept the excellence of liberty. The simple truth is that they wish to keep it for themselves and promote the idea that…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its…

— John Quincy Adams

Our nation was founded on the principle that our government should be of the people, by the people, and for the people - where…

— Tulsi Gabbard

“I always have felt that we are a nation that is very different . . . unique, perhaps. We were founded by thinking men,…

— Jeff Shaara

EXCEPTION, n. A thing which takes the liberty to differ from other things of its class, as an honest man, a truthful woman, etc.

— Ambrose Bierce

Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

— John Stuart Mill