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• The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion .
  .. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free -- which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state....
• MAYONNAISE, n. One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• I contemplate with sovereign reverence the act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religio
  or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and state....
• Propaganda must not serve the truth.
• Although Poles suffer official censorship, a pervasive secret police and laws similar to those in the USSR
  here are thousands of underground publications, a legal independent Church, private agriculture, and the East bloc's first and only independent trade union federation, NSZZ Solidarnosc, which is an affiliate of both the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the World Confederation of Labor....
• Every free citizen is an ENEMY of the STATE. -- Kurt J. Robertso
• To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
  -- Alan Paton, 1967...
• Do you think the State or any other institution should do more for writers?
  The State should do no more for writers than it should do for any other person who lives in it....