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- Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, September 9, 1912
- Someone who expresses a view that is contrary to the view of the overwhelming majority should be allowed to stand undisturbed as a monument to our commitment to free speech.
- Albert Gore, Jr.
- You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938), Address to the jury, trial of Communists, Chicago, Illinois, 1920
- Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.
- Scott Adams (1957 - )
- The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
- C. Wright Mills
- Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The great use of a life is to spend for something that outlasts it.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.
- Henry Luce
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