Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-02-23 Feb 23, 2005The majority of us are for free speech when it deals with subjects concerning which we have no intense feelings.~ Edmund B. ChaffeeFreedom of expression is the well-spring of our civilization... The history of civilization is in considerable measure the displacement of error which once held sway as official truth by beliefs which in turn have yielded to other truths. Therefore the liberty of man to search for truth ought not to be fettered, no matter what orthodoxies he may challenge.~ Felix FrankfurterFreedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.~ Justice Robert H. Jackson 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print