Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. —Frederick Douglass

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. —Frederick Douglass
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. —John Stuart Mill
It is vain to fight totalitarianism by adopting totalitarian methods. Freedom can only be won by men unconditionally committed to the principles of freedom. The first requisite for a better social order is the return to unrestricted freedom of thought and speech. —Ludwig von Mises
The most potent anti-authoritarian action is to tell the truth. —Jordan Peterson
We were supposed to be educating young people. We’re supposed to be teaching that freedom is not always there, that it’s fragile, and you better take care of it. —Jordan Peterson
You pay a price for everything you do and everything you don’t do.
so you might as well stand up for yourself. —Jordan Peterson
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people. —Heinrich Heine (German Poet 1820)
Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power. —Ludwig von Mises