Defend Freedom

Famous quotes containing the words defend and/or freedom:

    “Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “[T]here is a Wit for Discourse, and a Wit for Writing. The Easiness and Familiarity of the first, is not to savour in the least of Study; but the Exactness of the other, is to admit of something like the Freedom of Discourse, especially in Treatises of Humanity, and what regards the Belles Lettres.”
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)