Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Quotes Regarding Freedom of Speech

Posted by Douglas V. Gibbs

"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." -- Gerald R. Ford

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -- George Orwell

“The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.” -- Karl Marx, Father of Communism

“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.” -- Adolf Hitler

“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us." -- William O. Douglas, The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)

“Feminists often pretend to be angry and offended in order to win debates or, I should say, prevent debates from ever happening. If you can act angry and offended, especially on a college campus, you can shut down the other side using a speech code.” -- Mike Adams, Author: Feminists Say the Darndest Things: A Politically Incorrect Professor Confronts "Womyn" on Campus

“If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.” -- Brent Weeks, Author of the Lightbringer Series of Epic Fantasy Novels

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.” -- Theodore Roosevelt

“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." -- Harry S. Truman, Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” -- Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” -- George Washington

“If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?” -- Michel Templet, American Author of Historical Fiction

“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.” -- Thomas Jefferson

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” -- George Orwell, 1984

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary

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