“Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.” Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) US Founding Father. Source Reference Benjamin Franklin Quote

“The legislative powers of the government reach actions only, and not opinions.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source Reference Thomas Jefferson Quote

“The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period.” George Washington, (1732-1799)…

“Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the…

“[I]t is a truth which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are always most in danger, when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.”…

“The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime.” Miller v. U.S., Source: 230 F 2d 486, 489. Source Reference Miller v. U.S. Quote

“Search the Constitution and you will find no power granted to the legislative branch to make laws governing agriculture, housing, medicine, energy, private ownership or weapons, and a great deal more.” John F. McManus., Source: Ignoring the Obvious, THE NEW…

“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.” Hubert H. Humphrey, (1911-1978) US Vice-President, US Senator (D-MN). Source: Speech, Madison, WI, 23 August 1965. Source Reference Hubert H. Humphrey Quote

“The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes liberties with the other fellow, and leaves us alone.” Edgar Watson Howe, (1853-1937). Source: Country Town Sayings, 1911. Source Reference Edgar Watson Howe Quote

“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.” James Madison, (1751-1836), Father of the Constitution for the…

“People everywhere confuse, what they read in newspapers with news.” A. J. Liebling, [Abbott Joseph Liebling] (1904-1963) American journalist, author. Source: The New Yorker, 7 April 1956. Source Reference A. J. Liebling Quote

“What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.” H….