Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2020-11-14 Nov 13, 2020No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisSince when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?~ Lillian HellmanSecrecy is the beginning of tyranny.~ Robert A. Heinlein Nov 12, 2020Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.~ Thomas JeffersonYield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.~ Virgil Nov 11, 2020Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.~ John OsborneIf you are afraid to speak against tyranny, then you are already a slave.~ John "Birdman" BryantThe Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.~ Justice Hugo L. Black Nov 10, 2020Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers; for their education is but the mere breaking in of the steer to the yoke; the mere discipline of the hunting dog, which, by dint of severity, is made to forego the strongest impulse of his nature, and instead of devouring his prey, to hasten with it to the feet of his master.~ Thomas HodgskinExperts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.~ Walter E. WilliamsLet the people think they govern and they will be governed.~ William Penn Nov 9, 2020Why, if we had to do that we could not pass most of the laws we enact around here... Americans just want us to solve America's problems of health and safety -- and not be concerned if they can be constitutionally justified.~ Sen. John GlennThe true patriot scrutinizes the actions of his own government with unceasing vigilance. And when his government violates the morality and rightness associated with principles of individual freedom and private property, he immediately rises in opposition to his government.~ Jacob G. HornbergerLaws are like cobwebs which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.~ Jonathan Swift Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print