Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2007-06-14 Jun 14, 2007Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.~ Mahatma Mohandas K. GandhiLiberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.~ Woodrow WilsonIt is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.~ Benjamin Franklin 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print