“Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.”
Lewis Carroll (1832–1898) English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
“The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.”
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
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“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Remarks at a White House luncheon (26 June 1954) <br class="br">Quoted in Churchill Urges Patience in Coping with Red Dangers, The New York Times, June 27, 1954 http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00A10FE3458117A93C5AB178DD85F408585F9, <br class="br">Has been falsely attributed to Otto von Bismarck. <br class="br">But Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, speaking of this quote, noted that Churchill actually said, "Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war." Four years later, during a visit to Australia, Harold Macmillan said the words usually—and wrongly—attributed to Churchill: “Jaw, jaw is better than war, war.” Credit: Harold Macmillan. <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955) <br class="br">Source: https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/quotes-falsely-attributed/
“We are not indeed obliged always to speak what we think, but we must always think what we speak.”
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert (1647–1733) writer from France
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Son, 1726, p. 149
“The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.”
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D.J. MacHale (1955) American television director and producer
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Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer
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“Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.”
Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary
Source: The Russian Revolution (1918), Chapter Six, "The Problem of Dictatorship"
Context: Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of “justice” but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when “freedom” becomes a special privilege.
Clement Attlee (1883–1967) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Address to the United States Congress (13 November 1945), quoted in The Times (14 November 1945), p. 4. Aneurin Bevan said to Attlee afterwards: "That was a noble speech. I felt very proud", quoted in John Campbell, Nye Bevan and the Mirage of British Socialism (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), p. 187.
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