I decided to copy my on-computer "quote database" to my website. If you're hurting for a good opening quote for your speeches, feel free to copy one from here. As long as you cite the person who said it, I don't think it'll be a problem. ;0)
()()()()()()()()()(The Press)()()()()()()()()()()
"Only by vigorous newsgathering can the media play the role contemplated by the Framers. As Justice Potter Stewart argued, the Free Press Clause of the First Amendment is a "structural" provision that gives the organized press the institutional autonomy necessary to provide "an additional check on the three official branches." In sum, a free press provides "organized, expert scrutiny of government." David A. Logan (Professor of Law, Wake Forest U.), Iowa Law Review, October 1997, PP. 161
"However, one commentator does not believe court-ordered disclosure has a substantial chilling effect on future sources: "My guess is that most confidential sources talk to the press for their own compelling reasons of conscience or ideology or personal animus -- and will continue to do so even if an occasional case demonstrates that reporters may come under legal pressure to name their sources."" Jean B. Koepke (UCLA Law School), Federal Communications Law Journal, April 1990, PP. 277.
"Freedom of speech and press are not absolute rights and were never intended to be so. They are relative, in the sense that they are limited by the coexisting rights of others (as in the matter of libel) and by the demands of national security and public decency." Robert F. Cushman, Leading Constitutional Decisions, Eighteenth Edition.
"The great weight of authority is that newsmen are not exempt from the normal duty of appearing before a grand jury and answering such questions. The First Amendment interest asserted by newsmen is outweighed by the general obligation of citizens to appear before a grand jury or trial, pursuant to a subpoena, and to give what information they possess. Public interest in law enforcement and in ensuring effective grand jury proceedings outweighs the consequential but uncertain burden on news gathering." Supreme Court Justice White on Branzburg V. Hayes.
"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing panic." Supreme Court Justice Holmes
"One of the arguments made in favor of a shield law was that it would cut down on the number of subpoenas issued to reporters. A 1993 study by the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information in Gainesville, Fla., found a nearly 71% increase -- from 268 to 458 -- in the number of subpoenas issued to reporters during a 21-month period following a 1990 decision by the Florida Supreme Court in a case involving the Miami Herald." David Noack, Florida Shield Law Invoked For First Time. Editor & Publisher, July 4, 1998 v131 n27 p10(1).
"Nearly half of the city editors in states with shield laws said that even casual reminders about the laws had prevented the issuance of some subpoenas." Eileen M. Wirth, Shield laws deflect subpoenas. Editor & Publisher, June 3, 1995 v128 n22 p16(1).
"Only 5% of the editors from shield law states rated the laws as unimportant, vs. 50% of the editors from nonshield states." Eileen M. Wirth, Shield laws deflect subpoenas. Editor & Publisher, June 3, 1995 v128 n22 p16(1).
"The RCFP survey found that 52.1% of the 664 newspapers and 236 television stations responding to the survey were subpoenaed in 1993, compared with 43.9% in 1991. Some 59% of the subpoenas were issued in shield law states, RCFP reported." Eileen M. Wirth, Shield laws deflect subpoenas. Editor & Publisher, June 3, 1995 v128 n22 p16(1). -
##############Genetics############################
"Even cloned cells, with identical sets of genes, vary somewhat in shape and coloration. The variations are so subtle that they can usually be ignored. But when cells are combined to form organisms, the difference becomes overwhelming. A threshod is crossed and individuality is born." George Johnson (New York Times science writer) "It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then
"Diversity is a good thing in any population. If a population becomes too in-bred, it loses the ability to respond to a new threat, such as a lethal virus...The basic objection is that you never know what genes you're going to need, so we shouldn't mess around creating and indirectly eliminating some genes." Gregory E. Pence, Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?
"It is the individual man In his individual freedom who can mature With his warm spirit the unripe world." Christopher Fry (b. 1907) British playwright: Moses in The Firstborn (1946), Act 1, Sc. 1
"it would be possible for female lineages to proceed without any male contribution at all and it would be possible for one woman to create her own child using her own ovum and DNA...So the child who is truly the child of a single parent would be a genuine revolution in human history and her of his advent should be viewed with immense caution." Cahill, 1997 (I'll have to check up to find the full name of this author and his/her credentials)
"A strong argument for concluding that genetic engineering and perhaps even genetic therapy is morally unacceptable is that it risks great harm for many in future generations in order to provide benefits for a few in this one." Dr. Bernard Gert is the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. ; USA Today (Magazine); GENETIC ENGINEERING: Is It Morally Acceptable?; January, 1999; Pg. 28
"Even given the possible risks, there is insufficient potential benefit to justify any human genetic engineering. Until certain knowledge of the real risks and benefits associated with human genetic engineering has been obtained, the potential risks to all of the future descendants of the patient outweigh any benefit to a very small number of persons who might benefit. In the event of an unanticipated harmful outcome of genetic engineering using mice or corn, the transgenic organisms can be killed, but clearly this option can not be used with humans." Dr. Bernard Gert is the Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. ; USA Today (Magazine);, 1999; Pg. 28;.
////////////////////Democracy///////////////////////
"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power." Alvin Toffler (b. 1928), U.S. author: Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century (1990), Pt. 1, Ch. 2, 'The Democratic Difference'
***************** Government ********************
"Government must not do for the individual what the individual can do for him self." --- Adam Smith
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Laws^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Society, being composed of a plurality of persons, each with his own aims, interests, and conceptions of the good, is best arranged when it is governed by principles that do not themselves presuppose any particular conception of the good; what justifies these regulative principles above all is not that they maximize the social welfare or otherwise promote the good, but rather that they conform to the concept of 'right', a moral category given prior to the good and independent of it." --- Michael Sandel
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Freedom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"It is the individual man In his individual freedom who can mature With his warm spirit the unripe world." Christopher Fry (b. 1907) British playwright: Moses in The Firstborn (1946), Act 1, Sc. 1
"Each member of society is thought to have an inviolability founded on justice or, as some say, on natural right, which even the welfare of every one else cannot override. Justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others." John Rawls, Professor of Philosophy, A Theory of Justice, 1971, P. 334
Freedom of speech and press are not absolute rights and were never intended to be so. They are relative, in the sense that they are limited by the coexisting rights of others (as in the matter of libel) and by the demands of national security and public decency." Robert F. Cushman, Leading Constitutional Decisions, Eighteenth Edition.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Individuality,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
"Government must not do for the individual what the individual can do for him self." --- Adam Smith
"It is the individual man In his individual freedom who can mature With his warm spirit the unripe world." Christopher Fry (b. 1907) British playwright: Moses in The Firstborn (1946), Act 1, Sc. 1
???????????????Justice?????????????????????????
"Each member of society is thought to have an inviolability founded on justice or, as some say, on natural right, which even the welfare of every one else cannot override. Justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others." John Rawls, Professor of Philosophy, A Theory of Justice, 1971, P. 334
"Each member of society is thought to have an inviolability founded on justice or, as some say, on natural right, which even the welfare of every one else cannot override. Justice denies that the loss of freedom for some is made right by a greater good shared by others." John Rawls, Professor of Philosophy, A Theory of Justice, 1971, P. 334
++++++++++++++++++++Knowledge+++++++++++++++++++++++
"A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very begining. One must learn from him who knows." George Gurdjieff (c. 1877-1949), Greek-Armenian religious teacher and mystic: Quoted in In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky (1949), Ch. 2
"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power." Alvin Toffler (b. 1928), U.S. author: Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century (1990), Pt. 1, Ch. 2, 'The Democratic Difference'
===================Morality========================
“Every person has also his moral backside which he does not show except under the stress of necessity and which he covers as long as possible with the pants of good breeding.” -Lichtenburg
(^)^(^)^(^)^(^)Philosophy(^)^(^)^(^)^(^)^(^)^(^)
“There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
on the flip side, you can say
“But there is much in philosophy which is found neither in heaven nor on earth.”
also William Shakespeare’s Hamlet
ooooooooooooooPOWERoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power." Alvin Toffler (b. 1928), U.S. author: Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century (1990), Pt. 1, Ch. 2, 'The Democratic Difference'
+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+Progress+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=
"It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you." e e cummings (1894-1962), U.S. poet: 'Jottings', publ. in Wake, No. 10, 1951, rep. in A Miscellany (ed. George J. Firmage, 1958)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~We Don't Need Men!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"it would be possible for female lineages to proceed without any male contribution at all and it would be possible for one woman to create her own child using her own ovum and DNA...So the child who is truly the child of a single parent would be a genuine revolution in human history and her of his advent should be viewed with immense caution." Cahill, 1997 (I'll have to check up to find the full name of this author and his/her credentials)
"The universe is corporeal; all that is real is material, and what is not material is not real." --The Leviathan
When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of "happiness" has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions. ~ Hannah Arendt ~
