Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"A newspaper has three things to do.
One is to amuse, another is to entertain
and the rest is to mislead."

~ Ernest Bevin  

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States
is one of the wonders of the Western world.
No First World country has ever managed
to eliminate so entirely from its media
all objectivity -- much less dissent."

~ Gore Vidal  

"Only the suppressed word is dangerous."

~ Ludwig Börne  

~ Bernie Sanders  

~ Noam Chomsky  

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media."

~ William Colby  

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Press:

- Concentrated Power of the Big Press.
- Passing of competition and the coming of monopoly.
- Governmental control of the press.
- Timidity, especially in the face of group and corporate pressures.
- Big Business mentality.
- Clannishness among the newspaper publishers that has prevented them
from criticizing each other.
- Social blindness.

~ Max Lerner  

"Public sentiment is everything.
With public sentiment nothing can fail.
Without it nothing can succeed.
He who molds opinion is greater
than he who enacts laws."

~ Abraham Lincoln  

"It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time
to realize that it has really nothing to say,
at the very moment when it has invented
so tremendous a trumpet for saying it."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."

~ E. M. Forster  

"What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother’s morals -- only of his rights."

~ Judith Crist  

"Whenever people are
well-informed
they can be trusted
with their own government;
that whenever things get so far wrong
as to attract their notice,
they may be relied on
to set them to rights."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered
the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty."

~ Albert Camus  

"Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech."

~ Cato  

"Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again,
and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge."

~ Sir Francis Bacon