“Protection of political speech advanced two important democratic goals: 1) an informed citizenry that would be capable of making educated decisions on matters of public concern, and 2) a free and open marketplace of ideas wherein the truth would ultimately…

“Censors are infused with the sentiment of moral indignation – a dangerous and misleading sentiment because, by blinding those who voice it to the real reasons for their indignation, it makes them puppets whose fears can be manipulated for ends…

“Some things have to be believed to be seen.” Ralph Hodgson, (1871-1962) English poet, Order of the Rising Sun. Source Reference Ralph Hodgson Quote

“Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.” Napoleon Bonaparte, (1769-1821) French emperor, Source: Political Aphorisms (1848). Source Reference Napoleon Bonaparte Quote

“Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn’t even get out of committee.” F. Lee Bailey, famous trial attorney. Source: Newsweek, 17 April 1967. Source Reference F. Lee Bailey Quote

“Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?” Jean-Baptiste Say, (1767-1832) French economist, businessman. Source: A Treatise on Political Economy, 1803. Source Reference Jean-Baptiste Say Quote

“The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.” James Russell Lowell, (1819-1891) American author and diplomatist. Source Reference James Russell Lowell Quote

“Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms.  They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.” Charles T. Sprading, (1871-1959) Libertarian activist, writer. Source: Freedom and its…

“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story,…

“No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.” Wendell Phillips, (1811-1884)…

“What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment … inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is…

“Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.” Phyllis McGinley, (1905-1978) American author of children’s books and poetry. Pulitzer prize 1961, 1954. Source Reference Phyllis McGinley Quote