Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2001-09-13 Sep 13, 2001When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.~ John Adams Sep 12, 2001If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.~ George WashingtonThe attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself.~ Joseph SobranIt is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships, that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.~ Voltaire Sep 11, 2001There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.~ Henry David ThoreauThe Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations ... This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.~ John AdamsIt does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.~ Samuel Adams Sep 10, 2001Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.~ Elias BoudinotDo what thy manhood bids thee do, From none but self expect applause: He noblest lives and noblest dies Who makes and keeps his self-made laws.~ Sir Richard Francis Burton Sep 7, 2001Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisIn a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.~ Walter Lippmann Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print