“Socialism of any type leads to a total destruction of the human spirit.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn, (1918-2008) Russian novelist, Soviet dissident, imprisoned for 8 years for critizing Stalin in a personal letter, Nobel Prize for Literature, 1970. Source Reference Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn…

“But when no risk is taken there is no freedom.” Alan Watts, (1915-1973) British-American philosopher. Source: Tao: The Watercourse Way, 1975. Source Reference Alan Watts Quote

“The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.” Thomas I. Emerson, (1907-1991) Lines Professor of Law, Yale University,…

“The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without purpose.” Immanuel Kant, (1724-1804) German philosopher. Source Reference Immanuel Kant Quote

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” H. Jackson Brown, Jr., (1940-)…

“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….

“A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.” Ernest Bevin, (1881-1951) British Foreign Minister. Source: at London Conference of Foreign Ministers, 10 Feb. 1946, quoted in The…

“The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by…