Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-06-18 Jun 18, 2003If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.~ Samuel Eliot MorisonFreedom is not a fixed and possessed thing. It is a quality of life. And like action itself, it is something experienced only by individuals.~ Neil A. McDonaldIt is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.~ R. H. Tawney Jun 17, 2003There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.~ Archibald MacLeishThe creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind -- men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others -- men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.~ Franklin D. RooseveltMost powerful is he who has himself in his own power.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaTo know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.~ Robert Louis Stevenson Jun 16, 2003The threat of people acting in their own enlightened and rational self-interest strikes bureaucrats, politicians and social workers as ominous and dangerous.~ W. G. HillNothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayI wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but a political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either.~ Edward Zehr Jun 13, 2003The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.~ Justice William O. DouglasNothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.~ Thomas JeffersonIt is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.~ Walter Cronkite Jun 12, 2003The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a speech, to deliver a sermon, to picket, to parade, or to assemble, it need not be honored when it’s invalid on its face.~ Justice Potter StewartOur republic and its press will rise and fall together.~ Joseph PulitzerWe must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.~ Walter Lippmann Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print