Wendell Phillips Quotes

I'm a big advocate of freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of thought.

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

Freedom of expression is very important.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.

The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.

Religious and civil liberty are best protected by unbounded freedom of thought.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of a civil society …. This will come.

I believe in Freedom as near absolute, as is consistent with safety. I believe in free thought, free speech and free Press... .

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

Our rights are interconnected and inseparable. When freedom of expression is threatened, the rights to freedom of association and assembly, of thought, conscience and religion, are also compromised.

My grandfather wanted to remind us that freedom of expression is the fundamental ingredient for democracy, and all the rest is detail. It is the scaffolding around which every other freedom is based.

Freedom of opinion is a valuable asset in a democracy.

I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

I should be very sorry to see the United States holding anyone in confinement on account of any opinion that that person might hold. It is a fundamental tenet of our institutions that people have a right to believe what they want to believe and hold such opinions as they want to hold without having to answer to anyone for their private opinion.

You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.

Liberty is the only idea which circulates with the human blood, in all ages, in all countries, and in all literature - liberty that is, and what cannot be separated from liberty, a love of country.

There is no freedom on earth or in any star for those who deny freedom to others.

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.

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

I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.

We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.