“The Supreme Court has held that code is speech. And it doesn't matter that it's done on a computer or done face to face or done in a newspaper, reporting the facts of the world is protected speech.” WorldMatterDoneFactsFacesSpeechComputerCourtNewspapersSupremeCodeProtectedSupreme CourtFace To Face Author:Jimmy Wales
“The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy.” FactsPoliticalCertainFallExistenceLibertyClearSpeechConstitutionInstitutionsPressesPensAnarchyDespotismPolitical Institutions Author:William C. Bryant
“There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.” ImportantFactsThreeKnowledgeFiguresSpeechWittyFourthReportersEstatesParliamentGalleryLiteralFigures Of SpeechWitty Sayings Author:Edmund Burke
“I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.” IfsWorldYearsPersonsDoeHas BeensFactsLastsChallengesFiveSeeingSpeechBasesNotionDefeatInternationalBritishRussiaRationalMinistersThirtyFive YearsPrimeAggressiveSovietBentPrime MinisterConquestDominationMisunderstandingComprehensionUnsuccessfulSoviet RussiaWorld Domination Author:Enoch Powell
“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.” MenWellsMadeFactsLyingEasyHalfLeaderHeroComfortSpeechClaimsMythPostsDictatorSpySubversiveHalf TruthBiographersElected Leaders Book:Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name Source: Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name