Action Quote by John Stuart Mill

“There is the greatest difference between assuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted,…

— John Stuart Mill

“First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to…

— John Stuart Mill

We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

— Thomas Paine

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

— Lawrence Durrell

It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the…

— John Stuart Mill

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they…

— Elmer Davis

When we advocate a thing which we believe will be successful we are not compelled to raise a doubt as to our own sincerity…

— William Jennings Bryan

“Those who would suppress an opinion (it is assumed that they are honest) deny its truth, but they are not infallible. They may be…

— John Bagnell Bury

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

— Milton Friedman

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of…

— Frederick Douglass

“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