Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-03-27 Mar 27, 2007We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.~ Benjamin WhichcoteFreedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the opportunity to choose.~ C. Wright MillsWhen liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.~ Dorothy Thompson Mar 26, 2007The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.~ Adlai E. Stevenson IIFreedom of communication means, clearly and unquestionably, freedom to speak, debate, and write in privacy; to share confidence with intimates and confidants, and to prepare positions in groups and institutions for presentation to the public at a later point.~ Alan WestinFreedom of the press, or, to be more precise, the benefit of freedom of the press, belongs to everyone – to the citizen as well as the publisher… The crux is not the publisher’s ‘freedom to print’; it is, rather, the citizen’s ‘right to know.’~ Arthur Hays Sulzberger Mar 23, 2007If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within 5 years men would be having abortions!~ Harry BrowneSeems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.~ Manuel Garcia O'Kelly DavisJena by this time was a center of antitobacco activism -- mainly through the labors of Karl Astel, director of the new institute [Institute for Tobacco Hazards Research] and president, since the summer of 1939, of the University of Jena. Astel was head of the Thuringia's office of Racial Affairs and a notorious antisemite and racial hygienist (he had joined the Nazi party and the SS in July of 1930) ... Astel was also a militant antismoker and teetolater who once characterized opposition to tobacco as a 'national socialist duty.' On May 1, 1941, he banned smoking in all buildings and classrooms of the University of Jena, and the following spring, as head of Thuringia's Public Health Office, he announced a smoking ban in all regional schools and health offices. Tobacco in his view had to be fought 'cigar by cigar, cigarette by cigarette, and pack by pack' -- hence his notoriety for snatching cigarettes from the mouth of students who dared to violate his Jena University tobacco ban.~ Robert N. Proctor Mar 22, 2007He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.~ Arthur SchopenhauerWhy doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?~ Jimmy DuranteA man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.~ Michel De Montaigne Mar 21, 2007The multiple human needs and desires that demand privacy among two or more people in the midst of social life must inevitably lead to cryptology wherever men thrive and wherever they write.~ David KahnIf you mind your own business, you won't be minding mine.~ Hank WilliamsToleration of people who differ in convictions and habits requires a residual awareness of the complexity of truth and the possibility of opposing view having some light on one or the other facet of a many-sided truth.~ Reinhold Niebuhr Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print