“To freemen, threats are impotent.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, (106-43 B.C.) Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator. Source Reference Marcus Tullius Cicero Quote

“Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.” William O. Douglas, (1898-1980), U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: An Almanac of Liberty, 1954. Source…

“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees…

“Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?” William Lloyd Garrison, (1805-1879) American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. Source Reference William Lloyd Garrison Quote

“The cause of anger is the belief that we are injured; this belief, therefore, should not be lightly entertained. We ought not to fly into a rage even when the injury appears to be open and distinct: for some false…

“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most…

“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…

“I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.” Henry Brooks Adams, (1838-1918) Pulitzer prize-winning historian (1919), great-grandson of John Adams,…

“I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.” James A. Garfield, (1831-1881) 20th President of the United States (1881), assassinated. Source Reference James A. Garfield Quote

“Everyone has the right…to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media regardless of frontiers.” United Nations, Source: Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19, 1948. Source Reference United Nations Quote

“The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too…

“A man should be upright, not be kept upright.” Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, (121 AD -180 AD) Roman Emperor, 161-180 AD. Source: Meditations, Book III, 5  (c.161-180 AD). Source Reference Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quote