Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-11-30 Nov 30, 2017Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech... Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech...~ CatoBut this is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.~ EuripidesA 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 Sutherland Nov 29, 2017Remember, Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom; Wisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love; Love is not music; Music is the best.~ Frank ZappaForms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis Nov 28, 2017The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.~ JuniusThe freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.~ Carl Friedrich BahrdtThe knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Nov 27, 2017Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.~ Oscar WildeThe death of media influence has been greatly exaggerated.~ Thomas SowellI hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast.~ William Tecumseh Sherman Nov 24, 2017No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.~ H. L. MenckenThe purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong.~ L. A. Powe, Jr.My business is to bring my aspirations to conform to fact, not to try to harmonize fact with my aspirations.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print