Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"And let us remind readers regularly, in editorials,
in our promotional advertising, in speeches to civic groups and others,
that advertising helps people to live better and saves them money.
This fact needs constant selling."

~ Paul Miller  

"It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic."

~ Alexander Hamilton

"It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...
that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted
to either his own devices or his own thoughts."

~ H. L. Mencken  

"The oppression of any people for opinion’s sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important."

~ Hosea Ballou  

"Persecution produced its natural effect on them.
It found them a sect; it made them a faction."

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay  

"Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction."

~ Thomas I. Emerson  

"To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned,
into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read,
what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy
the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries."

~ Virginia Woolf  

"Whatever the individual motives of the censors may be, censorship is a form of social control. It is a means of holding a society together, of arresting the flux which censors fear. And since the fear cannot be appeased, the demands for censorship mount in volume and intensity. And one form of censorship can easily lead to other forms."

~ Carey McWilliams  

"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."

~ Charles W. Moore  

"The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is
one of the worst things that’s happened in American political life."

~ John Silber  

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in
America as an independent press. You know it and I know it.

There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions,
and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in
print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the
paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries
for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to
write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another
job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my
paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth;
to lie outright;
to pervert;
to vilify;
to fawn at the feet of mammon, and
to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.

You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an
independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind
the scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we
dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the
property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."

~ John Swinton  

"Only the suppressed word is dangerous."

~ Ludwig Börne  

"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure,
when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."

~ Patrick Henry  

"Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuous revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions."

~ Ronald Reagan  

"A free press
is not a privilege
but an organic necessity
in a great society."

~ Walter Lippmann