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“It has ever been my hobby-horse to see rising in America an empire of liberty, and a prospect of two or three hundred millions of freemen, without one noble or one king among them. You say it is impossible. If I should agree with you in this, I would still say, let us try the experiment, and preserve our equality as long as we can. A better system of education for the common people might preserve them long from such artificial inequalities as are prejudicial to society, by confounding the natural distinctions of right and wrong, virtue and vice.”

Source: Works: with a life of the author

“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 free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”

Ifs Hate Freedom Principles Constitution Agree Libertarian Attachment Libertarianism Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Limited Government Limited Freedom Free Thought Free Expression Supreme Court Justice

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.”

Ifs Thinking Should Science Freedom Morning Conditions Offers Bed Agree Clock Protest Every Morning Great Power

Author:Thomas Huxley

“It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.”

Believe Easy Freedom Speech Agree Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Limiting Freedom Of Expression

Author:Leo McKern

“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.”

Life Inspirational Wisdom Funny Politics Freedom Communication Agree Equality Disagree Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Badass Disagreement Freedom Of Thought Enlightenment Thinkers

Author:Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.”

Ifs Want Matter Fighting Enjoy Freedom Poor Race Rich Atheism Color Diversity Skins No Matter What Agree Social Justice Prepared Equality Be Prepared Indivisible Rich Or Poor

Author:Wendell Willkie

“If an individual agrees with everybody, he lacks conviction; if he likes everybody and is everybody's friend, he is indifferent to one and all.”

Ifs Individual Freedom Democracy Agree Conviction Likes Indifferent

Author:Nikolay Dobrolyubov

“I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.”

Thinking Trying Government Freedom Trouble Behavior Agree Interfere Economist

Author:Milton Friedman

“For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.”

Men Freedom Liberty Argument Destruction Agree Libertarian Libertarianism Persuasion Persuasive

Book:Faces in the water

Source: Faces in the water