Quote of the Day for 2016-09-21

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."

— A.J. Liebling (1904-1963) "Toward a One-Paper Town," The New Yorker (February 12, 1949)

Rupert Murdoch standing under the printing presses of the New York Post (November 8, 1985) Protograph by Roger Ressmeyer

Quote of the Day for 2016-07-18

"Unreason and anti-intellectualism abominate thought. Thinking implies disagreement; and disagreement implies nonconformity; and nonconformity implies heresy; and heresy implies disloyalty—so, obviously, thinking must be stopped. But shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom."

— Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) Call to Greatness (1954)

Michele Bachmann speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. (February 10, 2011) Photograph by Alex Brandon

Quote of the Day for 2016-06-07

"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory."

— Thomas Mann (1875-1955) "The War and the Future," Order of the Day (1942)

Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix (1830)

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-10

"In a political context of the utmost significance, ['freedom from fear'] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights."

— Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) Speech at the 180th anniversary of The Virginia Declaration of Rights in Williamsburg, Virginia, May 16, 1956

Freedom from Fear by Norman Rockwell (1943)

Quote of the Day for 2015-12-10

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."

— Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) The Passionate State of Mind

Jiggs and Dorothy Lamour on the set of Her Jungle Love (1938)