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Alicé Leuchte

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“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
― John Milton , Areopagitica

tags: argument, conscience, freedom, freedom-of-speech, liberty

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“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
― James Madison

tags: authority, constitution, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, politics

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“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
― Euripides, The Phoenician Women

tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech, speaking-out

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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
― George Washington

tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech

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“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson