Zechariah Chafee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.
-- Zechariah Chafee

#Mean #People #Freedom Of Speech
Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. 'Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
-- Zechariah Chafee

#Country #Men #Swings
Speech should be fruitful as well as free.
-- Zechariah Chafee

#Speech #Should #Wells
You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.
-- Zechariah Chafee

#Wisdom #Country #Men
We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.
-- Zechariah Chafee

#Swings #Noses #Arms
Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined
-- Zechariah Chafee

#Struggle #Government #Issues

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.
Freedom of speech implies the world isnâ€™t defined. It is meaningful when people are allowed to see the world their way.
A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression.
The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.
I am aware that America is and must always be a land of freedom including freedom of speech. But there is a right time and place for everything

Zechariah Chafee famous quotes

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