William Borah Quotes

• Sin una prensa sin trabas, sin libertad de expresión, todas las formas y estructuras externas de las instituciones libres son una farsa, una pretensión, la burla más pura. Si la prensa no es libre; si la palabra no es independiente y sin trabas; si la mente está encadenada o se vuelve impotente por el miedo, no importa bajo qué forma de gobierno vivas, eres un súbdito y no un ciudadano.

  William Borah

  Independent, Government, Differences

  William Edgar Borah (1936). “Bedrock: Views on Basic National Problems”

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• Peace purchased at the cost of any part of our national integrity is fit only for slaves, and even when purchased for such a price it is a delusion, for it cannot last.

  William Borah

  Freedom, Integrity, Cost

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• There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.

  William Borah

  Intolerance, Dies, Hard

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• I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.

  William Borah

  Intellectual, Coward, Looks

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• No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.

  William Borah

  Heart, Law, Brain

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• There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.

  William Borah

  Passion, Sleep, Fire

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