Top 6 Michael J. Knowles Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Boundaries must constrain free speech if only to protect speech, as in the case of laws against sedition or rules against the heckler’s veto. Tolerance cannot tolerate intolerance. And openness cannot leave itself open to closed-mindedness.”

— Michael J. Knowles

2. “Under political correctness, saying the right thing supplants doing the right thing.”

— Michael J. Knowles

3. “Bush warned, ‘The notion of political correctness has ignited controversy across the land, and although the movement arises from the laudable desire to sweep away the debris of racism and sexism and hatred, it replaces old prejudice with new ones... What began as a crusade for civility has soured into a cause of conflict and even censorship.”

— Michael J. Knowles

4. “Civilization cannot stand for nothing.”

— Michael J. Knowles

5. “Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government,” declared George Washington in his farewell address.43 Benjamin Franklin observed, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.”

— Michael J. Knowles

6. “People who worry about microaggressions usually have never faced macroaggressions.”

— Michael J. Knowles

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