Choose a background or upload your own photo, then download a shareable quote image.

Your file stays in the browser; nothing is sent to the server.

Quote

  • Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.

    Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr. / Jurist
    Copy Quote

Only Text Quote

Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.

⇛ Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr. (Jurist)
Copy Quote Text
The New York Times columnist, Thomas Friedman, cited Haqqani to make the argument that Guantánamo must be shut down. He wrote:“Husain Haqqani, a thoughtful Pakistani scholar now teaching at Boston University, remarked to me: 'When people like myself say American values must be emulated and America is a bastion of freedom, we get Guantánamo Bay thrown in our faces. When we talk about the America of Jefferson and Hamilton, people back home say to us: 'That is not the America we are dealing with. We are dealing with the America of imprisonment without trial.'
Husain Haqqani Author
More by Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr. All New York quotes

App & Tools

Get Daily Quotes of QuoteForever App Make Your Picture Quotes, Download and Share

Top Authors

View All Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Share This Page