Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-07-26 Jul 26, 2016Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.~ Alan BarthIt is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.~ Ayn RandThere are many prices we pay for freedoms secured by the First Amendment; the risk of undue influence is one of them, confirming what we have long known: Freedom is hazardous, but some restraints are worse.~ Justice Warren E. Burger Jul 25, 2016Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.~ Ambrose BierceIt is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.~ Thomas WolfeWhen all think alike, no one is thinking very much.~ Walter Lippmann Jul 22, 2016It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.~ Benjamin DisraeliTeachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.~ Bernhard RustPurveyors of political correctness will, in the final analysis, not even allow others their judgments... They celebrate “difference,” but they will not allow people truly to be different -- to think differently, and to say what they think.~ Mark Berley Jul 21, 2016The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.~ Albert EinsteinCensorship 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 Jul 20, 2016Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.~ Manuel Garcia O'Kelly DavisWhere once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.~ Richard MitchellHow strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!~ Samuel Adams Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print