The Politics Of Surprise Leads Through The

The Real Sadness Of Fifty Is Not That You Change So Much But That You Change So Little.

Meiklejohn'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?

It Is Not Science That Has Destroyed The World, Despite All The Gloomy Forebodings Of The Earlier Prophets. It Is Man Who Has Destroyed Man.

The Problem Of Freedom In America Is That Of Maintaining A Competition Of Ideas, And You Do Not Achieve That By Silencing One Brand Of Idea.

There Are Some Who Become Spies For Money, Or Out Of Vanity And Megalomania, Or Out Of Ambition, Or Out Of A Desire For Thrills. But The Malady Of Our Time Is Of Those Who Become Spies Out Of Idealism.