Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line.
What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed
group of vigilantes imposing their views on others."

~ Doris Lessing  

"We are going to impose our agenda on the coverage
by dealing with the issues and subjects we choose to deal with."

~ Richard M. Cohen  

"I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence."

~ Edward R. Murrow  

"It is the absolute right of the state
to supervise the formation of public opinion."

~ Joseph Paul Goebbels  

"But those dealing in the actual manufacture of mind are dealing in a very explosive material. The material is not merely the clay of which man is master, but the truths or semblances of truth which have a certain mastery over man. The material is explosive because it must be taken seriously. The men writing books really are throwing bombs."

~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton  

"[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do,
to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own."

~ Milovan Djilas  

"We must not always judge of the generality
of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation."

~ Edmund Burke  

"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there
is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."

~ David Brinkley  

"Everybody gets so much information all day long
that they lose their common sense."

~ Gertrude Stein  

"People everywhere confuse,
What they read in newspapers with news."

~ A. J. Liebling  

"The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate.
If it is accurate, it follows that it is fair."

~ Herbert B. Swope  

"In the United States there is no phenomenon more threatening to
popular government than the unwillingness of newspapers to give
the facts to their readers."

~ Nelson Antrim Crawford  

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.
Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle."

~ Thomas Jefferson  

"Newspapers have degenerated.
They may now be
absolutely relied upon."

~ Oscar Wilde  

"The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust."

~ Samuel Butler