Dem's Writin' Words The relationship between Democracy and Freedom of the Press, Muckraking and Government, Liberty and Rebellion http://www.mut8.org/ Benjamin Franklin ]]> Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. Benjamin Franklin ]]> Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. Thomas Jefferson ]]> Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson ]]> Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. Thomas Jefferson ]]> Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. Thomas Jefferson ]]> Information is the currency of democracy. Thomas Jefferson ]]> No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will. Thomas Jefferson ]]> We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. Thomas Jefferson ]]> Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Thomas Jefferson ]]> Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. Thomas Jefferson ]]> Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Martin Luther King, Jr. ]]> Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. John F. Kennedy ]]> A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. John F. Kennedy ]]> Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both. John F. Kennedy ]]> The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. Ronald Reagan ]]> Don't be afraid to see what you see. Ronald Reagan ]]> Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. Ronald Reagan ]]> Trust, but verify.