Mark Twain on Freedom
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Mark Twain, catalogued under freedom, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Mark Twain and filed under "freedom" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #59426: "Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will."
Attributed to Mark Twain, entry #36210: "Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech."
7 Quotes by Mark Twain on Freedom
"Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world — and never will."
"Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech."
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
"We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."
"None but the dead have free speech."
"It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land."
"As an active privilege, ranks with the privilege of committing murder: we may exercise it if we are willing to take the consequences. Murder is forbidden both in form and in fact; free speech is granted in form but forbidden in fact. By the common estimate both are crimes, and are held in deep odium by all civilized peoples. Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always."