Corliss Lamont Quotes

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

In a free state there must be free speech. In libera civitate etiam linguas esse liberas.

The public use of man's reason must always be free, and it alone can cause enlightenment.

All that is required for this enlightenment is freedom; and particularly the least harmful of all that may be called freedom, namely, the freedom for man to make public use of his reason in all matters. But I hear people clamor on all sides: Don't argue! The officer says: Don't argue, drill! The tax collector: Don't argue, pay! The pastor: Don't argue, believe! The public use of a man's reason must be free at all times, and this alone can bring enlightenment among men...

Free speech is the foundation of an open and liberal democracy from college campuses to the White House.

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

I can't emphasize how important free speech is to a liberal and free democracy.

Freedom of expression must be considered sacred and thought can only be corrected by counter thought.

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

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

I think that, as Americans, we should never forget that when we tamper with freedom of speech, it is a very sensitive issue that affects all of our constitutional rights and privileges.

Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

I feel like freedom of speech is one of the great things in this country and the freedom to do what you feel is right.

This nation was conceived in liberty and dedicated to the principle - among others - that honest men may honestly disagree; that if they all say what they think, a majority of the people will be able to distinguish truth from error.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

For me, Westernization is not about consuming fanciful goods; it's about a system of free speech, democracy, egalitarianism and respect for the people's rights and dignity.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

There is nothing more American than peaceful protest.

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.