US politicos ... "The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech." -- Justice Anthony Kennedy
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -- Abraham Lincoln
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." -- John F. Kennedy
And not ... "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job." -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." -- Picard, ST:TNG, quoting a fictional judge, "The Drumhead"
"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities." -- Lord Acton
"Patriotism is thinly veiled racism." -- Albert Einstein
Let's see what people have said ...
"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
-- Justice Anthony Kennedy
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
-- John F. Kennedy
And not ...
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job."
-- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
-- Picard, ST:TNG, quoting a fictional judge, "The Drumhead"
"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
-- Lord Acton
"Patriotism is thinly veiled racism."
-- Albert Einstein
Re: Let's see what people have said ...
Re: Let's see what people have said ...
I use various ones in my email signatures. it is not unusual for me to get a reply that only talks about the quote.