James Wesley Rawles (1960) Survivalist-fiction author and blogger
Tools For Survival (2009)
“The First Amendment is not limited to the right to be right; it also enshrines the right to be wrong.”
“The Wrong Response to Holtzman”, New York Times, Dec. 30, 1987
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Naomi Wolf (1962) American writer
The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society (22 October 2011), Blog Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/occupy-wall-street-bloomberg-free-speech-right-to-disruption-_b_1026535.html at huffingtonpost.com
“Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.”
Fulton J. Sheen (1895–1979) Catholic bishop and television presenter
Program 19
Life Is Worth Living (1951–1957)
“it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.”
Paul Arden (1940–2008) writer
“There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.”
John Updike book Rabbit, Run
Source: Rabbit, Run
“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.”
John Diefenbaker (1895–1979) 13th Prime Minister of Canada
March 11, 1958.
“I would rather have a clean government than one where 'First Amendment rights' are being respected”
John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States
On the Don Imus show (28 April 2006)
2000s, 2006
Context: I work in Washington and I know that money corrupts. And I and a lot of other people were trying to stop that corruption. Obviously, from what we've been seeing lately, we didn't complete the job. But I would rather have a clean government than one where 'First Amendment rights' are being respected that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I'd rather have the clean government.
