Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2022-07-20 Jul 20, 2022We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself… which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country.~ Gaetano MoscaA government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.~ James MadisonAnd I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak.~ James Russell Lowell Jul 19, 2022What's right with America is a willingness to discuss what's wrong with America.~ Harry C. BauerPolitics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.~ Henry Brooks AdamsMay it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this ought not to produce great and universal alarm? Whether a rigid execution of such an act, in time past, would not have repressed that information and communication among the people which is indispensable to the just exercise of their electoral rights? And whether such an act, if made perpetual, and enforced with rigor, would not, in time to come, either destroy our free system of government, or prepare a convulsion that might prove equally fatal to it? ~ James Madison Jul 18, 2022Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty.~ Albert CamusIn order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates…~ Alexis de TocquevilleThere is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.~ Clarence S. Darrow Jul 15, 2022Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings.~ Quintus Tullius CiceroEverything you read in the press is absolutely true. Except the rare event of which you have personal knowledge.~ Erwin KnollThe price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.~ Justice Robert H. Jackson Jul 14, 2022Once the government becomes the supplier of people's needs, there is no limit to the needs that will be claimed as a basic right.~ Lawrence AusterGovernment isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities. ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes. ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame.~ P. J. O'RourkeTo subject an artist’s work to a litmus test of political probity – and to punish institutions that will not carry out the mandate of the state – is to traffic in the thought control that gave us Stalinism and Nazism…~ Richard Goldstein Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print