2022 July 22
"The loss of liberty in general would soon follow
the suppression of the liberty of the press;
for it is an essential branch of liberty,
so perhaps it is the best preservative of the whole."
"Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom."
2022 July 21
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."
"Among other causes of misfortune
which your not being armed brings upon you,
it makes you despised..."
"To my mind it is wholly irresponsible to go into the world incapable of preventing violence, injury, crime, and death. How feeble is the mindset to accept defenselessness. How unnatural. How cheap. How cowardly. How pathetic."
2022 July 20
"We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself… which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country."
"A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a republic,
and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it,
without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace."
"And I honor the man who is willing to sink
half his present repute for the freedom to think,
and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak,
Will risk t' other half for the freedom to speak."
2022 July 19
"What's right with America
is a willingness to discuss
what's wrong with America."
"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
"May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this ought not to produce great and universal alarm? Whether a rigid execution of such an act, in time past, would not have repressed that information and communication among the people which is indispensable to the just exercise of their electoral rights? And whether such an act, if made perpetual, and enforced with rigor, would not, in time to come, either destroy our free system of government, or prepare a convulsion that might prove equally fatal to it? "
2022 July 18
"Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered
the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty."
"In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits
that the liberty of the press ensures,
it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates..."
"There is no such crime as a crime of thought;
there are only crimes of action."
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