General Discussion

marym625

(17,997 posts) Wed Mar 11, 2015, 12:56 AM Mar 2015

Some quotes from the past that are still noteworthy today

Some relevant, some seemingly irrelevant.

Joseph Welch

"You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

Welch versus Joseph McCarthy 2-2:

Daniel Webster

"The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people."

Edward R. Murrow

"If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox — if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa who are shopping about for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that denies or limits the freedom of the individual in this country costs us the ... confidence of men and women who aspire to that freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought."

"The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think — that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America."

Abraham Lincoln

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

Mark Twain

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."