| John Trenchard - Church and state - 1724 - 372 pages
...&C. WITHOUT Freedom of Thought; there can be no fuch Thing as Wi£ dom ; and no fuch Thing as publics Liberty, •without Freedom of Speech ; which is the-'...Right of every Man, as far as by it he does not hurt or controul the Right of another':. And this is the only Check it ought to fiiffer,-' and the only... | |
| Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
.......,.- ,,;•! .-V LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. . : • •.:'•'• I WITHOUT freedom of thought there .ca no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech : whi(;hu the right of every man, as far as by it he does rityt hurt a;id cor.troul the right of another;... | |
| Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1823 - 816 pages
...That without freedom of thought, there can be no such tiling as wisdom ; and no such thing as put, lie liberty without freedom of speech, which is the right of every man, as far as it does not injure or controal the right of smother ; and this is the only check it ought to know.... | |
| Joseph Parkes - 1867 - 508 pages
...second indignant defence of Pitt appeared under his later signature. In the latter he observes that, ' Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom. Without freedom of speech in Parliament there can be no such thing as liberty. Freedom of speech in... | |
| Censorship - 1909 - 284 pages
...been brought to condign punishment.— Rev. Horatio Potter, " Intellectual Liberty," Albany, 1837. Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing...no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech—which is the right of every man, as far as by it he does not hurt and control the right of... | |
| Richard D. Brown - History - 1996 - 280 pages
...libertarian ideology from the London Journal and inserred it into one of his own 1722 newspaper essays; Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does... | |
| Max L. Christensen - Religion - 1997 - 142 pages
...security. John Trenchard (1662-1723) has preserved this gem of wisdom from ancient Cato's letters: Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man, as far as by it he does not hurt... | |
| Max L. Christensen - Religion - 1997 - 142 pages
...security. John Trenchard (1662-1723) has preserved this gem of wisdom from ancient Gate's letters: Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as Liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man, as far as by it he does not hurt... | |
| Eric Alterman - History - 1999 - 340 pages
...Bennet, the profession's first Washington correspondent, "Without Freedom of Thought," wrote Mrs. Dogood, "there can be no such Thing as Wisdom and no such Thing as Publick Liberty. . . . Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the... | |
| Walter Isaacson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 607 pages
...was having Mrs. Dogood quote in full an essay from an English newspaper that defended free speech. "Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom," it declared, "and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech."39 The "rubs" that Franklin... | |
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