“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.”

March 11, 1958.

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John Diefenbaker 9
13th Prime Minister of Canada 1895–1979

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Context: If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to any one who will take it of me.

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