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It gives me a sense of freedom to know that a deed of deliberate courage is still possible in this world,⁠—a deed of spontaneous beauty.
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906Hedda Gabler (1890), Act Fourth, spoken by HeddaIn context
- Beauty
- Courage
The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
Henrik Ibsen1828–1906An Enemy of the People (1882), Act IV, spoken by Dr. StockmannIn context
- Democracy
- Truth & Lies
What light is to the eyes, what love is to the heart, Liberty is to the soul of man. Without it, there come suffocation, degradation and death.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Liberty
There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
- Intelligence
- Liberty
Wait until the world is free before you write a creed.
In this creed there will be but one word — Liberty.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
- Liberty
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
- Liberty
I simply claim that what ideas I have, I have a right to express; and that any man who denies that right to me is an intellectual thief and robber. That is all.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
- Ideas
I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
There has never been upon the earth a generation of free men and women. It is not yet time to write a creed.
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child (1877)
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943), 319 U.S. 641
The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion — except for the sect that can win political power.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Zorach v. Clauson (1952), 343 U.S. 325
- Religion
Civil liberties had their origin and must find their ultimate guaranty in the faith of the people. If that faith should be lost, five or nine men in Washington could not long supply its want.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Douglas v. Jeannette, 319 U.S. 157, 182 (1943)
- Liberty
Procedural fairness and regularity are of the indispensable essence of liberty.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Shaughnessy v. United States ex rel Mezei, 345 U.S. 206, 224–25 (1953)
- Justice
- Liberty
The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954Dissenting in Terminiello v. City of Chicago, 337 U.S. 1 (1949)
- Government
- Liberty
We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.
Robert H. Jackson1892–1954United States v. Spector, 343 US 169, 180 (1952) (dissenting)
- Liberty