“The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws…

“Give a good man great powers and crooks grab his job.” Rick Gaber, Libertarian writer. Source Reference Rick Gaber Quote

“There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money – and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of…

“You can’t make socialists out of individualists.  Children who know how to think for themselves spoil the harmony of the collective society which is coming where everyone is interdependent.” Rosalie M. Gordon, American author. Source:  ‘What Happened to Our Schools?’ (1956)…

“The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we’ll dismiss it…

“He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.” Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) US Founding Father. Source: from his writings, 1758. Source Reference Benjamin Franklin Quote

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist. Source Reference George Bernard Shaw Quote

“Power can rarely be wielded effectively over long periods of time unless it is perceived by the community in which it is exercised as a form of legitimate authority, not as mere coercive force.” Brian Tierney, Source:  RELIGION, LAW, AND…

“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail. Without it nothing can succeed. He who molds opinion is greater than he who enacts laws.” Abraham Lincoln, (1809-1865) 16th US President. Source Reference Abraham Lincoln Quote

“The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.” Josef Stalin, (1879-1953) Communist leader of the USSR. Source:  Speech at The Twelfth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) (19 April 1923). Source Reference Josef Stalin…

“Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.” William Godwin, (1756-1836), English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. Source Reference William Godwin Quote

“There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press… and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by…