"I don’t believe in firing professors. They have academic freedom." ― Alan Dershowitz Topic(s): Freedom Tags: believe, firing More From Alan Dershowitz "We don’t have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets." "I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It’s impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes." "No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948." More In Freedom "Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us."― Muhammad Ali Jinnah "Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he’s a universalist."― Peter Singer "We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that."― John O. Brennan