People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought...which they avoid.  Soren Kierkegaard quotes Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form. Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt quotes History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. Dwight David Eisenhower quotes The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. T.S. Eliot quotes Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our true freedom is not the freedom from action but freedom in action, which can only be attained in the work of love. Rabindranath Tagore quotes The most important lesson that man can learn from his life is not that there is pain in this world, but that it depends upon him to turn it into good account, that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy... Man’s freedom is never in being saved troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy... that in pain is symbolized the infinite possibility of perfection, the eternal unfolding of joy. Rabindranath Tagore quotes Those institutions which are static in their nature raise walls of division; this is why, in the history of religions, priesthood has always maintained dissensions and hindered the freedom of man. But the principle of life unites, it deals with the varied, and seeks unity. Rabindranath Tagore quotes True modernism is freedom of mind, not slavery of taste. It is independence of thought and action, not tutelage under European schoolmasters. It is science but not its wrong application to life. Rabindranath Tagore quotes We gain freedom when we have paid the full price for our right to live. Rabindranath Tagore quotes Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride. Friedrich Nietzsche quotes | 
