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2020 July 24
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"The news is like a ship. If you take hands off the wheel, it pulls hard to the left." |
"The American people should be made aware of the trend toward
monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the
concentration of more and more power over public opinion
in fewer and fewer hands." |
"Today in the United States, the corporate – or ‘mainstream’ – press is massively consolidated. And it has become remarkably monolithic in viewpoint, at the same time that an increasing number of journalists see themselves less as objective reporters of the facts, and more as agents of change." |
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2020 July 23
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"We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press. It is however, the prostituted companion of liberty, and somehow or other, we know not how, its efficient auxiliary. It follows the substance like its shade; but while a man walks erect, he may observe that his shadow is almost always in the dirt. It corrupts, it deceives, it inflames. It strips virtue of her honors, and lends to faction its wildfire and its poisoned arms, and in the end is its own enemy and the usurper's ally, It would be easy to enlarge on its evils. They are in England, they are here, they are everywhere. It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it." |
"Reporters today are far removed from America's founding values and are alarmed and contemptuous of gun owners as dangerous lower classes." |
"As long as I don't write about
the government, religion, politics,
and other institutions,
I am free to print anything." |
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2020 July 22
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"If you want to be free, there is but one way;
it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty
to all your neighbors. There is no other." |
"The only shape in which equality is
really connected with justice is this --
justice presupposes general rules.
If these general rules are to be maintained at all,
it is obvious that they must be applied equally
to every case which satisfies their terms." |
"No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character." |
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2020 July 21
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"I swear by my life, and love of it,
that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for mine." |
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." |
"The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave,
and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men." |
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2020 July 20
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"No man can suffer too much,
and no man can fall too soon,
if he suffer or if he fall
in defense of the liberties and
Constitution of his country." |
"The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster." |
"Were we directed from Washington
when to sow and when to reap,
we should soon want bread." |
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