The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.
The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.
You don't have true freedom until you allow a diversity of opinion and a diversity of voices.
Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.
The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
What I want is a clash of ideas, not opinions.
As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.