Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-06-12 Jun 12, 2007We do not move forward by curtailing people’s liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.~ Eleanor RooseveltThe right to revolt has sources deep in our history.~ William O. DouglasOpen discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.~ Saul Bellow Jun 11, 2007Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.~ Andre GideFreedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent and debate.~ Hubert H. HumphreyThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.~ Thomas Jefferson Jun 8, 2007If any opinion be compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.~ John Stuart MillIt was not by accident or coincidence that the rights to freedom in speech and press were coupled in a single guaranty with the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for redress of grievances. All these, though not identical, are inseparable. They are cognate rights, and therefore are united in the first Article’s assurance.~ Judge Wiley B. RutledgeThe problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea.~ Max Lerner Jun 7, 2007Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.~ John Stuart MillA free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.~ Justice George SutherlandPersecution in intellectual countries produces a superficial conformity, but also underneath an intense, incessant, implacable doubt.~ Walter Bagehot Jun 6, 2007If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.~ Hans EysenckThink not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.~ SocratesThe abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.~ William Shakespeare Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print