„A citizen must be able in confidence to complain to his Government and to provide information, just as he is–and should be–free to confide in the press without fear of reprisal or of being required to reveal or discuss his sources.“
1960s, Statement on the Freedom of Information Act (1966)
Kontext: A democracy works best when the people have all the information that the security of the Nation permits. No one should be able to pull curtains of secrecy around decisions which can be revealed without injury to the public interest. At the same time, the welfare of the Nation or the rights of individuals may require that some documents not be made available. As long as threats to peace exist, for example, there must be military secrets. A citizen must be able in confidence to complain to his Government and to provide information, just as he is– and should be– free to confide in the press without fear of reprisal or of being required to reveal or discuss his sources.
Lyndon Baines Johnson1
Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten 1908 - 1973Ähnliche Zitate
— Mark Hopkins (educator) American educationalist and theologian 1802 - 1887
Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 238.
— John F. Kennedy 35th president of the United States of America 1917 - 1963
1963, Civil Rights Address
— Nelson Mandela President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist 1918 - 2013
Nelson Mandela on freedom of expression, At the international press institute congress (14 February 1994). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes
1990s
— Ayn Rand Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905 - 1982
Quelle: The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
— Hugo Black U.S. Supreme Court justice 1886 - 1971
Concurring in New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713 (1971).
„He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.“
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
“Benefactors,” p. 110
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Is It Possible to Write a Poem”
„We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.“
— Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States of America 1743 - 1826
Letter to William Carmichael and William Short (1793)
1790s
— Ilana Mercer South African writer
“Trump Should Triangulate,” http://www.unz.com/imercer/trump-should-triangulate/ The Unz Review, August 7 2015.
2010s, 2015
— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
Commencement Speech Given at Notre Dame University (22 May 1977) http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=727
Presidency (1977–1981)
Kontext: Democracy’s great recent successes — in India, Portugal, Spain, Greece — show that our confidence in this system is not misplaced. Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I’m glad that that’s being changed.
For too many years, we’ve been willing to adopt the flawed and erroneous principles and tactics of our adversaries, sometimes abandoning our own values for theirs. We’ve fought fire with fire, never thinking that fire is better quenched with water. This approach failed, with Vietnam the best example of its intellectual and moral poverty. But through failure we have now found our way back to our own principles and values, and we have regained our lost confidence. <!-- By the measure of history, our Nation’s 200 years are very brief, and our rise to world eminence is briefer still. It dates from 1945, when Europe and the old international order lay in ruins. Before then, America was largely on the periphery of world affairs. But since then, we have inescapably been at the center of world affairs.
— Frits Bolkestein Dutch politician 1933
Lecture at the University of Amsterdam (11 March 1997)
1990s
— Barack Obama 44th President of the United States of America 1961
Remarks by President Obama and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma in Joint Press Conference at Aung San Suu Kyi Residence in Rangoon, Burma on November 14, 2014 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/14/remarks-president-obama-and-daw-aung-san-suu-kyi-burma-joint-press-confe
2014
— André Maurois French writer 1885 - 1967
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Leadership
— Dejan Stojanovic poet, writer, and businessman 1959
“His Highness,” p. 90
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Game”
— Brian Campbell Vickery British information theorist 1918 - 2009
Quelle: Information history – an introduction (2009), p. 246.
— Learned Hand American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge 1872 - 1961
Extra-judicial writings, Speech to the Board of Regents (1952)
