In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.
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What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. read more
I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1].
Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer; preserve my life from fear of the enemy. [Psalms 64:1].
A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.
In modern war, the longest purse decides oftener than the longest sword.
You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making read more
One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting "the good guys" for "the bad guys.".
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.
I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.
