“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

“Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.” Lemuel K. Washburn, (1846-1927) American Freethought writer. Source: Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911. Source Reference Lemuel K. Washburn Quote

“The truth needs so little rehearsal.” Barbara Kingsolver, (1955-) American novelist, essayist and poet. Source: Animal Dreams. Source Reference Barbara Kingsolver Quote

“Respect for the truth is an acquired taste.” Mark Van Doren, (1894-1972) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, professor, and critic Source: Liberal Education, 1943. Source Reference Mark Van Doren Quote

“When you stretch the truth, watch out for the snapback.” Bill Copeland, (1946-2010) American poet, writer and historian. Source Reference Bill Copeland Quote

“Freedom degenerates unless it has to struggle in its own defence.” Lord Acton, [John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton] (1834-1902), First Baron Acton of Aldenham. Source Reference Lord Acton Quote

“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.” Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., (1841-1935) US…

“Ways may someday be developed by which the government, without removing papers from secret drawers, can reproduce them in court, and by which it will be enabled to expose to a jury the most intimate occurrences of the home.” Justice Louis D. Brandeis,…