7.29.2006

VOICE OF FREEDOM

  1. The key to wisdom is this--constant and frequent questioning....for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.---Peter Abelard (1099-1142), Sic et non, c. 1120
  2. Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to man's knowledge.----Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The Advancement of Learning, 1605
  3. Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.---Julius Caesar (100-44BC.) Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare)
  4. The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.----Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) Address to the court, People vs. Lloyd, 1920.
  5. The real guarantee of freedom is the equalibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.----Max Eastman (1883-1969), Reflections on the Failure of Socialism, 1955
  6. We cannot choose freedom established on an hierarchy of degrees of freedom, on a caste system of equality like military rank. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.---- William Faulkner (1897-1962) Harpers Magazine, June 1956
  7. Under the Priviledg of the First Amendment, many, many ridiculous things are said. ----John Kenneth Galbraith, PBS Firing Line 9 December, 1989
  8. You never hear about constitutional right, free speech, and the free press. Everytime I hear those words I say to myself, "That man is a red, that man is a communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.------- Frank Hauge (1876-1956) New York World Telegram, 2 Aug 1938
  9. The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom--they are the pillars of society. --- Henric Isben (1828-1906) Pillars of Society 1877
  10. As long as our goverment is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press it will be worth defending. --Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) --U.S. President
























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