Atmosphere Quote by Felix Frankfurter

The priceless heritage of the free and independent interchange of thought is not to be kept without ceaseless vigilance. Only by guarding the truth…

— 1st Viscount Southwood Julius Elias

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But…

— Thomas Paine

Liberty of thought is the life of the soul.

— Voltaire

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and…

— Swami Vivekananda

“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

“Thus freedom of thought, in any valuable sense, includes freedom of speech.”

— John Bagnell Bury

“Truth and liberty go hand in hand. Liberty is the state of mind, that gives rise to the truth, the ultimate state of being,…

— Abhijit Naskar

Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save…

— George MacDonald

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly…

— David Hume

Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.

— Salvador de Madariaga

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to…

— Ignazio Silone

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

— Louis D. Brandeis