Quotes on Freedom Of Thought

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

From a comparative perspective, the United States is unusual if not unique in the lack of restraints on freedom of expression. It is also unusual in the range and effectiveness of methods employed to restrain freedom of thought... Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Let nobody be afraid of true freedom of thought. Let us be free in thought and criticism; but, with freedom, we are bound to come to the conclusion that science is not antagonistic to religion, but a help to it.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.