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2013 December 13
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"The high-minded man
must care more for the truth
than for what people think." |
"There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant 'to be known,'
that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make." |
"People may or may not say what they mean...
but they always say something designed to get what they want." |
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2013 December 12
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"You can't run a society or cope with its problems
if people are not held accountable for what they do." |
"The function of free speech under our system of government
is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose
when it invites a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction
with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.
Speech is often provocative and challenging.
It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions
and have profound unsettling effects
as it passes for acceptance of an idea." |
"For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances,
as though they were realities, and are often more influenced
by the things that seem than by those that are." |
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2013 December 11
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"It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression
that will determine our fate. There must be no limit on the range
of temperate discussion, no limits on thought. No subject must be taboo.
No censor must preside at our assemblies." |
"I was taught when I was a young reporter that it's news when we say it is. I think that's still true -- it's news when 'we' say it is. It's just who 'we' is has changed. Members of the public, people with modems, people with cell phones are now producers, editors. They can push and push and push on a story until it ends up being acknowledged by everyone." |
"Quis costodiet ipsos custodes?"
("Who will watch the watchers?") |
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2013 December 10
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"There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times." |
"We have the greatest opportunity the world has ever seen, as long as we remain honest -- which will be as long as we can keep the attention of our people alive. If they once become inattentive to public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors would all become wolves." |
"The battle for the world is the battle for definitions." |
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2013 December 09
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"As long as men are free to ask what they must,
free to say what they think, free to think what they will,
freedom can never be lost and science can never regress." |
"Restriction of free thought and free speech
is the most dangerous of all subversions.
It is the one un-American act
that could most easily defeat us." |
"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother,
because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster." |
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