Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-02-22 Feb 22, 2005Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.~ W. Lance BennettThe man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.~ Robert G. IngersollMake men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.~ William Godwin Feb 21, 2005I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.~ Alexis de TocquevilleThe reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that’s happened in American political life.~ John SilberYou shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.~ Will Rogers Feb 18, 2005Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.~ Marcus Tullius CiceroSurely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently “insiders” know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.~ John ScharrWhat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.~ Thomas Jefferson Feb 17, 2005The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.~ William O. DouglasHere in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels -- men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, we may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.~ Dwight D. EisenhowerRevolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.~ Abbie HoffmanThe whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.~ Wavy Gravy Feb 16, 2005To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.~ Friedrich August von HayekDo we desire to be cradled, and then carried throughout life to our graves by this partisan propelled bureaucratic monstrosity? ...as individuals of sovereign dignity, are we now so terrified, bewildered, and impotent that our main purpose is to seek asylum from the potential hazards of freedom? Have we no faith in our natural strengths and abilities?~ Sergei HoffIf ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.~ Samuel Adams Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print