There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.
Max LernerIn societies like the American and West European where the dynamics of energy come from freedom and where the climate and the whole ethos are those of freedom, censorship is bound to be at worst, stupid; at best, futile; and always, to some degree, inconsonant with the character of the society as a whole.
Max LernerThe way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.
Max LernerThe politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
Max LernerMeiklejohn's position is that free speech in a democracy is not an absolute flowing from the boundless source of some presumed 'natural right.' It is a practical necessity of 'self-government by universal suffrage,' for if the citizens are not permitted to argue out the issues of government, how can they be what they must be in a democracy - the rulers as well as the ruled?
Max Lerner