Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 1320 Freedom quotesFreedom QuotesFreedom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The freedom to express varying and often opposing ideas is essential to a variety of conceptions of democracy. If democracy is viewed as essentially a process – a way in which collective decisions for a society are made – free expression is crucial to the openness of the process and to such characteristics as elections, representation of interests, and the like.~ Jonathan D. Casper Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech... Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech...~ Cato Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.~ Cato I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.~ Cato the Younger You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk, but to the majority that does not want to listen.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. Freedom from something is not enough. It should also be freedom for something. Freedom is not safety but opportunity. Freedom ought to be a means to enable the press to serve the proper functions of communication in a free society.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk but to the majority that does not want to listen.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.~ Edmund B. Chaffee The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.~ Whittaker Chambers Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.~ Nicolas-Sebasstien Chamfort Now the 21st century approaches and with it the inevitability of change. We must wonder if the American people will find renewal and rejuvenation within themselves, will discover again their capacity for innovation and adaptation. If not, alas, the nation's future will be shaped by sightless forces of history over which Americans will have no control.~ John Chancellor I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith...~ William Ellery Channing The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should therefore be hushed. A sentiment more unworthy of a free country could hardly be propagated. If the doctrine be admitted, rulers have only to declare war and they are screened at once from scrutiny.~ William Ellery Channing Knowledge is essential to freedom.~ William Ellery Channing The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.~ William Ellery Channing The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.~ William Ellery Channing Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.~ William Ellery Channing Attack another’s rights and you destroy your own.~ John Jay Chapman The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print