Being shocked is a part of democratic debate. Being shot is not.

Gérard Biard · At the PEN dinner in honor of Charlie Hebdo (May 5, 2015)

Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word “No.” Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples.

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word “No.” Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples, or of Parliamentary democracy, or of France, or of the many surviving liberal States of Europe.” · Broadcast, London, 16 October 1938

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Edward R. Murrow · See It Now, report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (March 7, 1954)

“Being shocked is a part of democratic debate. Being shot is not.”

“Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word “No.” Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples.”

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.”

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Being shocked is a part of democratic debate. Being shot is not.

Alexander the Great remarked that the people of Asia were slaves because they had not learned to pronounce the word “No.” Let that not be the epitaph of the English-speaking peoples.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.