Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other Southern colonies,… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
