“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 fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices – paid by…

“The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826),…

“Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.” Richard Salant, (1914-1993) former President of CBS News. Source Reference Richard Salant Quote

“Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism… A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population…

“The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of the people.” David Edwards, British columnist. Source: Burning All Illusions, 1996 Source Reference…

“The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media.” William Colby, (1920-1996). Former Director of the CIA. Source: in Derailing Democracy: The America the Media Don’t Want You to See (2000), by Dave McGowan Source Reference…

“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…

“Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward…

“Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.” Frances Wright, (1795-1852). Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, abolitionist, and social reformer. Source: Lecture, 1829 Source Reference Frances Wright Quote

“Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.” James Madison, (1751-1836), Father of the US Constitution and the 4th US President. Source Reference James Madison Quote

“How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to…