Quote of the Day for 2016-06-20

"Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?"

— Roger Ebert (1942-2013) Review of Talk Radio in the Chicago Sun-Times (December 21, 1988)

Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) getting his mouth taped by trainer Angelo Dundee during the weigh-in before his boxing match with Doug Jones (March 1963) Photograph by George Silk

Quote of the Day for 2015-12-09

"It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks."

— Tacitus (c.55-c.120) Histories, book 1, chapter 1

Senator Joseph McCarthy and Roy Cohn during the Army-McCarthy hearings (1954)