“Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech… Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech…” Cato John Trenchard (1662-1723) & Thomas…

“The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.” Carl Friedrich Bahrdt…

“The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.” Junius the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the London Public Advertiser, from January 21, 1769 to…

“The death of media influence has been greatly exaggerated.” Thomas Sowell (1930- ) Writer and economist, May 30, 2006. Source Reference Thomas Sowell Quote

“Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.” Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). Source Reference Oscar Wilde Quote

“My business is to bring my aspirations to conform to fact, not to try to harmonize fact with my aspirations.” Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895). Source Reference Thomas Henry Huxley Quote

“The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to limit what the federal government could do. Any interpretation of a provision of the Bill of Rights as a grant of federal power is ipso facto wrong.” L. A. Powe, Jr….

“No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether new or old, it is always a bad idea, and not infrequently it is downright idiotic.” H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) American…

“The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.” George Mason (1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James Madison and George Washington. Source: Virginia Bill of…

“In retrospect, we were totally blinded by our belief [in our findings]… we were not as careful or rigorous as we should have been (and as Tivoli was) in interpreting these experiments.” evolutionary scientist Jack Szostak of Harvard University, explaining…

“There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore…

“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.” Frederick Douglass [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave,…