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Freedom of speech is unnecessary if the people to whom it is granted do not think for themselves.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

Voltaire , in Traité sur la tolérance, à l'occasion de la mort de Jean Calas
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.

Robert G. Ingersoll , in The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
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[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

John Locke , in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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