As heard in the Senate

Memorable things said on the Senate floor over the centuries:

"I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it." - Thomas Paine, 1783


"Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free." -Theodore Roosevelt, 1918


"The truth is found when men are free to pursue it." - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936


"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." - George Rowel, 1945


"Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise ofhis constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them." - Dwight David Eisenhower, 1963


"What is objectionable, what is dangerous aboutextremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant." - Robert F. Kennedy, 1964


"Go f*ck yourself." - Dick Cheney, 2004

That esteemed fellow who put the "VICE" in Vice President.

Great quotes, by the way. Welcome to DU! Thanks for posting 'em.