Ira Glasser famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.
-- Ira Glasser

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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
-- Ira Glasser

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The first exception [to the First Amendment] will not be the last.
-- Ira Glasser

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You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
-- Ira Glasser

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Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want." "We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to." "Thanks." Wedge & Tycho
Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.
Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.
A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!
The beneficial effect of state intervention, especially in the form of legislation, is direct, immediate, and so to speak, visible, while its evil effects are gradual and indirect and lay out of sight ... Hence the majority of mankind must almost of necessity look with undue favor upon governmental intervention.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Then shoulder to shoulder! Let us engirdle the little circle of the earth with the chains that bind us to each other. To one end let us aim our thoughts, and to one end let us aim our souls. Hail, dawn of liberty, behind thee is the redeeming sun.
We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.

Ira Glasser famous quotes

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