Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority of superior officers? Well, why should we then expect government schools to teach children to question the authority of government?"

~ Neal Boortz  

~ Robert Baird  

~ Salman Rushdie  

~ Philip Lee Ralph  

"I tolerate with utmost latitude the right of others to differ with me in opinion without imputing to them criminality. I know too well all the weaknesses and uncertainty of human reason to wonder at its different results."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate utopia
where the last sins are currently being eliminated and
where, tomorrow, there will be no sins
because all the sinners have been wiped out."

~ Thomas Merton  

"There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won."

~ Judge Learned Hand  

~ Tom Wicker  

"If we don’t believe in freedom
of expression for people we despise,
we don’t believe in it at all."

~ Virginia Woolf  

"[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations...
They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others,
because at heart they fear their own weaknesses."

~ Ernest Jones  

~ Jeremy Bentham  

"The invaluable and the valueless, the noble and the tawdry, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false, the good and the evil, are equally protected by the First and the Fourteenth Amendments’ guarantees of a free press and religious freedom."

~ Milton Konvitz  

"If the human body's obscene,
complain to the manufacturer, not me."

~ Larry Flynt  

"The spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude,
trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests,
and then attempting to write an opinion which explains the difference
between that nude and some other nude has elements of low comedy."

~ Thurman Arnold  

"Obviously, the state's responsibility should be
to legislate rules for a well-ordered society.
It has no right or duty to creep into the bedrooms of the nation."

~ Pierre Trudeau