RLM News Show Podcast Blog – October 10, 2013

“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.”
Georges Bernanos

“Censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion… In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.”
Henry Steele Commager

“The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.”
Alexis de Tocqueville

“The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and…the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression and obedience.”
Justice William O. Douglas

“The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of the people.”
David Edwards

“But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
Declaration of Independence