“The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of…

“Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others.” Doris Lessing, (1919-2013) British author. Source: Sunday Times, 10 May 1992. Source Reference Doris Lessing Quote

“As the Founding Fathers knew well, a government that does not trust its honest, law-abiding, taxpaying citizens with the means of self-defense is not itself worthy of trust. Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not…

“Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one…

“The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.” Thomas I. Emerson, (1907-1991) Lines Professor of Law, Yale University, author. Source: Law and Contemporary Problems (1955). Source Reference Thomas I. Emerson Quote

“If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.” Hans Eysenck, (1916-1997) German-born psychologist, spent professional career in Great Britain. Source Reference Hans Eysenck Quote

“Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the…

“I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.” Calvin Coolidge, (1872-1933) 30th US President. Source Reference Calvin Coolidge Quote

“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various…

“The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition.  In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority… It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.” Frank I. Cobb, (1869-1923) American…

“The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.” Clarence S….

“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.” Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) 16th US President. Source Reference Abraham Lincoln Quote