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2009 July 17
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"In those wretched countries where
a man cannot call his tongue his own,
he can scarce call anything his own.
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation
must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." |
"Fraud may consist as well in the suppression of what is true as in the representation of what is false. If a man professing to answer a question, select those facts only which are likely to give a credit to the person of whom he speaks, and keep back the rest, he is a more artful knave than he who tells a direct falsehood." |
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2009 July 16
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"Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure." |
"If you do not say a thing in an irritating way,
you may as well not say it at all
because people will not trouble themselves
about anything that does not trouble them." |
"Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free
society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation." |
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2009 July 15
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"Among the liberties of citizens that are guaranteed are ...
the right to believe what one chooses,
the right to differ from his neighbor,
the right to pick and choose the political philosophy he likes best,
the right to associate with whomever he chooses,
the right to join groups he prefers ..." |
"Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society." |
"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.
It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime." |
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2009 July 14
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"If the political-correctness fascists get their way, we can safely assume it will be correct-thinking, "political cleansing" squads deciding what we can or cannot say on the Intenet. These people fear public debate and demand homogenization of "acceptable" attitudes compatible with their emotional, utopian idealism." |
"This manual of the Communist Party
should be in the hands of every loyal American,
that they may be alerted to the fact that
it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered." |
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2009 July 13
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"By establishing reading societies, and subscription libraries, and taking these under our direction, and supplying them through our labors, we may turn the public mind which way we will." |
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"Protection against government is now not enough to guarantee that a man who has something to say shall have a chance to say it. The owners and managers of the press determine which person, which facts, which version of the facts, and which ideas shall reach the public." |
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