Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy."

~ William Cullen Bryant  

"A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions."

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge  

"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly,
but a political system nominally controlled
by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate
who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media
that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment
can hardly be described as democracy either."

~ Edward Zehr  

"Purveyors of political correctness will, in the final analysis,
not even allow others their judgments...
They celebrate "difference," but they will not allow people truly
to be different -- to think differently, and to say what they think."

~ Mark Berley  

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States
is one of the wonders of the Western world.
No First World country has ever managed
to eliminate so entirely from its media
all objectivity -- much less dissent."

~ Gore Vidal  

"Everybody is in favor of free speech.
Hardly a day passes without its being extolled,
but some people's idea of it is that
they are free to say what they like,
but if anyone says anything back,
that is an outrage."

~ Sir Winston Churchill  

"To prevent inquiry is among the worst of evils."

~ Thomas Holcroft  

"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."

~ Justice William O. Douglas  

"You thus have no rights at all over our freedom of thought, you princes; no jurisdiction over that which is true or false; no right to determine the objects of our inquiry or to set limits to it; no right to hinder us from communicating the results, whether they be true or false, to whomever or however we wish."

~ Johann Gottlieb Fichte  

"Where men cannot freely
convey their thoughts to one another,
no other liberty is secure."

~ William Earnest Hocking  

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."

~ A. J. Liebling  

"Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers."

~ Aldous Huxley  

"Our republic and its press will rise and fall together."

~ Joseph Pulitzer