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

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. —Charles Evans Hughes

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

—Adlai Stevenson

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.       —Epictetus

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.              —Mohandas Ghandi

He who would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.                        —Thomas Paine

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...                                                                                           —Learned Hand

Liberty means responsibility. That’s why most men dread it.

—Antonio de Mendoza

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. —George Orwell

If you love something, set it free. If it returns, it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t it was never your to begin with.           —Anonymous

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.                                                                     —Benjamin Disraeli