We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt