William Randolph Hearst Quotes

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

We have the right to be idiots.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

I have no more right to object to a man for holding a different opinion from mine than I have to differ with a man because he wears a wig and I wear my own hair; but if he takes his wig off and shakes the powder in my face, I shall consider it my duty to get quit of him as soon as possible..

People have the right to say what they want to.

Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.

Our institutions were not devised to bring about uniformity of opinion; if they had we might well abandon hope. It is important to remember, as has well been said, 'the essential characteristic of true liberty is that under its shelter many different types of life and character and opinion and belief can develop unmolested and unobstructed.’

Democracy depends on the idea that we hold each others’ right to express ourselves and be heard above our own desire to always get the outcomes we want. You can’t impose tolerance top-down.

Everybody has to choose his or her own way to climb a mountain. I don't give an opinion. But there needs to be enough room for others.

We are all entitled to our own opinion.

I have no problem with someone who disagrees with my life. That's your right to feel that way.

Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

This is a free country, and to each their own.

If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.

And I don't get down on nobody else for doing whatever else they do. To each his own.

In fact, I would defend to the death their right to express a different point of view.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

The greatness of this country lies in how every single person can exercise their right to be himself or herself.

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.

A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society.

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has the right to be wrong in his facts.

The mission of our country is not to make other people like us but to enable them to be free to be themselves.