Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-02-26 Feb 25, 2005Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.~ Gotthold Ephraim LessingEverything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.~ Henry MillerThe objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.~ H. L. Mencken Feb 24, 2005At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....~ Lord ActonI long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.~ Helen KellerThere are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.~ Henry David Thoreau 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print