Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-08-19 Aug 19, 2016And let us remind readers regularly, in editorials, in our promotional advertising, in speeches to civic groups and others, that advertising helps people to live better and saves them money. This fact needs constant selling.~ Paul MillerIt is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.~ Alexander HamiltonIt is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.~ H. L. Mencken Aug 18, 2016The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.~ Hosea BallouPersecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.~ Thomas Babington MacaulaySuppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction.~ Thomas I. Emerson Aug 17, 2016To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.~ Virginia WoolfWhatever the individual motives of the censors may be, censorship is a form of social control. It is a means of holding a society together, of arresting the flux which censors fear. And since the fear cannot be appeased, the demands for censorship mount in volume and intensity. And one form of censorship can easily lead to other forms.~ Carey McWilliamsIf the political-correctness fascists get their way, we can safely assume it will be correct-thinking, “political cleansing” squads deciding what we can or cannot say on the Intenet. These people fear public debate and demand homogenization of “acceptable” attitudes compatible with their emotional, utopian idealism.~ Charles W. Moore Aug 16, 2016The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that’s happened in American political life.~ John SilberThere is no such thing ... in America as an independent press.~ John SwintonOnly the suppressed word is dangerous.~ Ludwig Börne Aug 15, 2016The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.~ Patrick HenryFreedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions.~ Ronald ReaganA free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.~ Walter Lippmann Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print