Quotes without comment

Every year, the Freedom Forum sends us a flip calendar with a quote of the day relating to the 1st Amendment.

Here are the quotes for this week. I offer no further comment on them. I leave that up to my readers (all 12 of you).

"Everybody is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts." -- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, former U.S. senator, 1989.

"If we prize freedom, we should let the radio talkers talk. Let them be perfectly understood, and let the pressure groups answer them when the talkers veer off reason with their inane hatreds." -- Michael Meyers, columnist, The Washington Post, 2007.

"To write the first draft of history, you have to be a witness to it." -- Joe Urschel, Newseum, 2003.

"The press's ability to pursue the truth and publish what we feel is appropriate will always be called into question by those who would prefer to operate in a less open society." -- Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., publisher, The New York Times, 2001.

"People grow or diminish in moral stature by the words which they speak and the messages which they choose to hear." -- Pope John Paul II, 2004.

"The First Amendment shouldn't be tossed because it makes us uncomfortable. We have to recognize that there are limits on government's ability to protect us from ourselves." -- Linda Campbell, columnist, Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram, 2001.

"I believe that unless we preserve absolute freedom of expression, democracy will perish." -- Frank E. Gannett, Gannett Co. founder, 1957.