Free Ideas Quotes

Ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

A period of high civilization is one in which thoughts fly freely from mind to mind, from one country to another-yes, from the past into the present.

I enjoy competing in the marketplace of free ideas.

I'm an American who loves an America which doesn't exist, which is a land of freedom and free ideas.

For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up and be heard.

Good ideas are free - or at least they should be.

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect - all of them free ideas.

Democracy's my idea. I do not agree with communists, my acts prove. Free press in Cuba - free ideas, freedom religion belief.

I want us to be a country of free ideas, free markets, and a freedom to dream.

It may be that a free society... carries in itself the forces of its own destruction, that once freedom has been achieved it is taken for granted and ceases to be valued, and that the free growth of ideas which is the essence of a free society will bring about the destruction of the foundations on which it depends.

Those who won our independence had confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning and communication of ideas to discover and spread political and economic truth

It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of it, but making it what it originally was, a free marketplace of ideas, and there are still aspects of the Internet that are that. Wikipedia, essentially, is still the bastion of the original ideals of the Internet.