We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere i...n the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want ... everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear ... anywhere in the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's ...intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have our difficulties, true; but we are a wiser and a tougher nation than we were in 1932. Never have there been six years of s...uch far flung internal preparedness in all of history. And this has been done without any dictator's power to command, without conscription of labor or confiscation of capital, without concentration camps and without a scratch on freedom of speech, freedom of the press or the rest of the Bill of Rights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Animal liberationists do not minimize the obvious differences between most members of our species and members of other species. Th...e rights to vote, freedom of speech, freedom of worship--none of these can apply to other animals. Similarly, what harms humans may cause much less harm, or even no harm at all, to some ani mals. If I were to confine a herd of cows within the boundaries of the county of, say, Devon, I do not think I would be doing them any harm at all; if, on the other hand, I were to take a group of people and restrict them to the same county, I am sure many would protest that I had harmed them considerably, even if they were allowed to bring their families and friends.... Hence to deny humans the right to travel outside Devon would be to restrict their rights significantly; it would not be a significant restriction of the rights of cows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood.... Wealth ...and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of "happiness" ... has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here we have the beautiful British compromise: a man can say anything, he mustn't do anything; a man can listen to anything, but h...e musn't be roused to do anything. By freedom of speech is meant freedom to talk about; speech is not saying-as-an-action.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they... demand freedom of speech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »