Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2005-08-07 Aug 5, 2005It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.~ Eugene IonescoThere is a lurking fear that some things are not meant “to be known,” that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.~ Carl SaganThe first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.~ Isaiah Berlin Aug 4, 2005The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men’s minds.~ Harold J. LaskiIf the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.~ Justice Thurgood MarshallWhen men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.~ Thomas Paine Aug 3, 2005I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.~ Margaret FullerA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.~ Ralph Waldo EmersonIf a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.~ Anatole FranceIf you believe everything you read, you better not read.~ Japanese Proverb Aug 2, 2005The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.~ James MadisonCensorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.~ John OsborneNo nation, ancient or modern, ever lost the liberty of speaking freely, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves.~ John Peter Zenger Aug 1, 2005There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.~ William JamesI think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country... Only the emergency that makes it immediately dangerous to leave the correction of evil counsels to time warrants making any exception to the sweeping command, 'Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech.'~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print