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‘Who Said It’ Quiz
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Where it is safe to say what’s on your mind, especially when everyone disagrees. Where it’s safe to believe what you believe, especially when everyone else’s beliefs stand elsewhere.”
Hint: Not a Republican
Hint: Not a Libertarian
Hint: Not a Democratic Socialist
Ready?
Hint: A.S.
Scroll a bit more…
Answer: Adlai Stevenson, quoted by Kevin D. Williamson in National Review, May 20, 2019.
Yup. We had such men at one time.
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I was going to guess H. L. Mencken.
Good quote. :-)
There have to be exceptions. For example, are you really safe in a free society if you call a 6’4″, 320 lb professional football player’s mother a “ho”?
Didn’t think so. However, I understand the gist of the quote, and think it’s very good . . .
You’re just defending the patriarchy, you hater.
Be specific, old son. There’s five of them.
Yikes.
Probably depends on circumstances, tone, etc. But yeah. And he probably didn’t mean you could yell “Fire” in a theater where everyone else, including the fire brigade, was of the opinion that there was no fire, for that matter. After all, Adlai was what they then called an “egghead.”
Was this quote not a response to the HUAC hearings meaning still rather partisan?
It’s nice that leftists were once liberal.