“We must protect the freedoms of even those who hate us, and that we may find objectionable. If we fail in this task, we become victims of the precedents we create.” Judge Robert Doumar, (1930-) Senior U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District…

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” Dr. Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784) English author, poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer Source Reference Famous Dr. Samuel Johnson Quote

“The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason & right. It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations in the…

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate…

“A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.” George Sutherland, (1862-1942) U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: Grosjean v. American Press Co., 1936….

“But this is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.” Euripides, (480-406 B.C.). Source: The Phoenician Women, 411-409 B.C. Source Reference Euripides Quote

“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) &…

“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) Anglo-Irish poet, novelist, writer. 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) English biologist, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his advocacy of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Source Reference…