To Reject The Word Is To Reject

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?

A Politician Wouldn't Dream Of Being Allowed To Call A Columnist The Things A Columnist Is Allowed To Call A Politician

Power Politics Existed Before Machiavelli Was Ever Heard Of; It Will Exist Long After His Name Is Only A Faint Memory. What He Did, Like Harvey, Was To Recognize Its Existence And Subject It To Scientific Study.

Some Of The More Fatuous Flag-waving Americans Are In Danger Of Forgetting That You Can't Extract Gratitude As You Would Extract A Tooth; That Unless Friendship Is Freely Given, It Means Nothing And Less Than Nothing.

Man Must Be At Once More Humble And More Confident; More Humble In The Face Of Destructive Potentials Of What He Can Achieve, More Confident Of His Own Humanity As Against Computers And Robots Which Are Only Engines To Simulate Him.