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“In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.”

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Author:Edmund Burke

“It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.”

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Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”

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Author:James Russell Lowell

“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.”

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Author:John Stuart Mill

“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”

Source: The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies

“In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.”

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Author:J. Norman Collie

“In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself.”

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Book:The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

Source: The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa

“Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.”

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Author:Immanuel Kant

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.”

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Book:The Real Benjamin Franklin

Source: The Real Benjamin Franklin

“For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.”

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Book:Watch on the Rhine: Acting Ed. Play in Three Acts

Source: Watch on the Rhine: Acting Ed. Play in Three Acts

“The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.”

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Book:Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan