When You Are Seventeen You Aren't Really

A President Is Best Judged By The Enemies He Makes When He Has Really Hit His Stride.

Meiklejohn's Position Is That Free Speech In A Democracy Is Not An Absolute Flowing From The Boundless Source Of Some Presumed 'natural Right.' It Is A Practical Necessity Of 'self-government By Universal Suffrage,' For If The Citizens Are Not Permitted To Argue Out The Issues Of Government, How Can They Be What They Must Be In A Democracy - The Rulers As Well As The Ruled?

The Crime Of Book Purging Is That It Involves A Rejection Of The Word. For The Word Is Never Absolute Truth, But Only Man's Frail And Human Effort To Approach The Truth. To Reject The Word Is To Reject The Human Search.

Some Of The More Fatuous Flag-waving Americans Are In Danger Of Forgetting That You Can't Extract Gratitude As You Would Extract A Tooth; That Unless Friendship Is Freely Given, It Means Nothing And Less Than Nothing.

The Problem Of Freedom In America Is That Of Maintaining A Competition Of Ideas, And You Do Not Achieve That By Silencing One Brand Of Idea.