“Internet users won’t know what they’ve got till it’s gone.” (Steve Levy, Newsweek International)

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government with no newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Thomas Jefferson

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” said Jefferson, “it expects what never was and never will be. … The people cannot be safe without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.“

“The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.” (“Age of Reason” by Thomas Paine)

“An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” Orlando A. Battista

“Religion is an insult to human dignity; with it or without it good people do good things and bad people do evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.” Steven Weinberger

“Religion persuades not only evil people but good people to do evil.”

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire

“Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.” Oscar Wilde

“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerfull God, who created faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.” (Gene Roddenberry, 1921-1991; Creator of Star Trek)

“Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.” Winston Churchill

“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.” H. L. Mencken

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” (Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788 – 1860; German philosopher)

“The history of the race, and each individual’s experience, are thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.” Mark Twain

“Think for yourself and question authority.” Timothy Leary

“A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.” Euripides