“By 1990, publishers of mass circulation daily newspapers will finally stop kidding themselves that they are in the newspaper business and admit that they are primarily in the business of carrying advertising messages.” – A. Roy Megary
“The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.” – Isaiah Berlin
“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.” – Thomas Jefferson
“So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism – despotism during the campaign – is indispensable.” – Walter Bagehot
“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that numbers of people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. . . Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” – Howard Zinn
“Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular cause . . . True courage and manhood come from the consciousness of the right attitude toward the world, the faith in one’s purpose, and the sufficiency of one’s own approval as a justification for one’s own acts.” – Clarence Darrow
“NATIONAL DEFENSE, n. In U.S. political discourse: 1) The pauperization of the nation through expenditures for deadly weapons systems; 2) The bombardment and invasion of small countries. The United States is, of course, the only nation entitled to such ‘defense.’ If the inhabitants of other countries resist the U.S. government’s ‘defensive’ measures, they become guilty of ‘internal aggression’; and if governments of other countries practice U.S.-style national defense, they become guilty of ‘naked aggression.’” – Chaz Bufe, The Devil’s Dictionaries
“The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.” – Thomas Jefferson
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