Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-07-24 Jul 24, 2020The news is like a ship. If you take hands off the wheel, it pulls hard to the left.~ Roger AilesThe American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.~ Spiro AgnewToday in the United States, the corporate – or ‘mainstream’ – press is massively consolidated. And it has become remarkably monolithic in viewpoint, at the same time that an increasing number of journalists see themselves less as objective reporters of the facts, and more as agents of change.~ William Barr Jul 23, 2020We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press. It is however, the prostituted companion of liberty, and somehow or other, we know not how, its efficient auxiliary. It follows the substance like its shade; but while a man walks erect, he may observe that his shadow is almost always in the dirt. It corrupts, it deceives, it inflames. It strips virtue of her honors, and lends to faction its wildfire and its poisoned arms, and in the end is its own enemy and the usurper's ally, It would be easy to enlarge on its evils. They are in England, they are here, they are everywhere. It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.~ Fisher AmesReporters today are far removed from America's founding values and are alarmed and contemptuous of gun owners as dangerous lower classes.~ Henry AllenAs long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.~ Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais Jul 22, 2020If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.~ Carl SchurzThe only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this – justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms.~ James Fitzjames StephensNo man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.~ John Viscount Morley Jul 21, 2020I swear by my life, and love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.~ Ayn RandPeople are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.~ George Bernard ShawThe man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.~ Robert G. Ingersoll Jul 20, 2020No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer or if he fall in defense of the liberties and Constitution of his country.~ Daniel WebsterThe worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster.~ Ludwig von MisesWere we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print