“The American feels too rich in his opportunities for free expression that he often no longer knows what he is free from. Neither does he know where he is not free; he does not recognize his native autocrats when he…

“A free society can exist only when public spirit is balanced by an equal inclination of men to mind their own business.” Edward A. Shils, (1910-1995) American professor, sociologist. Source: The Torment of Secrecy, 1956. Source Reference Edward A. Shils…

“The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the unmentionable, and challenge the unchallengeable.” C. Van Woodward, (1908-1999) American historian. Source: Report On Free Speech, New York…

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” George Washington, (1732-1799) Founding Father, 1st US President, ‘Father of the Country’. Source Reference George Washington Quote

“The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning…. And, even since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most…

“A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.” Walter Lippmann, (1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator. Source Reference Walter Lippmann Quote

“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.” Walter Lippmann, (1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator. Source Reference Walter Lippmann Quote

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” Oscar Ameringer, (1870-1943). German-American Socialist editor, author, and organizer. Source Reference Oscar Ameringer Quote

“Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” James Russell Lowell, (1819-1891) American author and diplomatist. Source: The Biglow Papers, II, 1862. Source Reference James Russell Lowell Quote

“For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?” Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, and poet. Source: “Boston” Stanza 15. Source Reference Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

“[E]very Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. The great and chief end…

“Collectivism, unlike individualism, holds the group as the primary, and the standard of moral value.” Mark Da Cunha, Publisher of Capitalism magazine. Source Reference Mark Da Cunha Quote