Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Benjamin Cardozo · Palko v. Connecticut (1937)

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Benjamin Cardozo · The Growth of the Law (1924)

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)

“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.”

“Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.”

“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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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

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.