As liberty of thought is absolute, so is liberty of speech, which is "inseparable" from the liberty of thought. Liberty of speech,... moreover, is essential not only for its own sake but for the sake of truth, which requires absolute liberty for the utterance of unpopular and even demonstrably false opinions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the... consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that... wise men look for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behold now this vast city; a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the sho...p of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and hands there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And hereby hangs a moral highly applicable to our own trustee-ridden universities, if to nothing else. If we really wanted liberty... of speech and thought, we could probably get it--Spain fifty years ago certainly had a longer tradition of despotism than has the United States--but do we want it? In these years we will see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty,... Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare, No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor; As much as child e'er loved, or father found, A love that makes breath poor and speech unable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thought a lot about our nation and what I should do as president. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two proble...ms of our country--energy and malaise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The philosopher and lover of man have much harm to say of trade; but the historian will see that trade was the principle of Libert...y; that trade planted America and destroyed Feudalism; that it makes peace and keeps peace, and it will abolish slavery. We complain of its oppression of the poor, and of its building up a new aristocracy on the ruins of the aristocracy it destroyed. But the aristocracy of trade has no permanence, is not entailed, was the result of toil and talent, the result of merit of some kind, and is continually falling, like the waves of the sea, before new claims of the same sort.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »