“The First Amendment says nothing about a right not to be offended. The risk of finding someone else’s speech offensive is the price each of us pays for our own free speech. Free people don’t run to court – or to the principal — when…

“Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.” John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist. Source: On Liberty, 1859. Source Reference John Stuart…

“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 Reference William O….

“The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.” Friedrich Durrenmatt, (1921-1990). Source: About Tolerance, 1977. Source Reference Friedrich Durrenmatt Quote

“Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, (1803-1882). Source: Essays, 1841
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“Without an unfettered press, without liberty of speech, all of the outward forms and structures of free institutions are a sham, a pretense – the sheerest mockery. If the press is not free; if speech is not independent and untrammeled; if the mind is shackled…

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” Theodore Roosevelt, (1858-1919) 26th US President
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“They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has ever since been the heart of the American faith.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, (1890-1969), 34th US President, WWII General. Source Reference…

“In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.” Charles-Louis de Secondat, (1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu. Source: “The Spirit of Laws” (1748). Source Reference Charles-Louis…

“Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there…

“Whenever ‘A’ attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon ‘B’, ‘A’ is most likely a scoundrel.” H. L. Mencken, (1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic. Source Reference H. L. Mencken Quote

“Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.” Herman Hesse, (1877-1962). Source: Reflections, 1974. Source Reference Herman Hesse Quote