“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

“Well-meaning Americans in the name of freedom have taken freedom away. For the sake of religious tolerance, they’ve forbidden religious practice.” Ronald Reagan, Source:  National Day of Prayer, May 6, 1982. Source Reference Ronald Reagan Quote

“If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical Society, certainly I would never have placed my signature…

“The state may not establish a ‘religion of secularism’ in the sense of affirmatively opposing or showing hostility to religion, thus ‘preferring those who believe in no religion over those who do believe.” Justice Potter Stewart, (1915-1985) Associate Justice of…

“The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call – in enemy nations – ‘state indoctrination.” Jonathan Kozol, (1936- ) American writer, educator, activist,…