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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton
The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form. Winston Churchill
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence. Salman Rushdie
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. Harry S. Truman
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write. Justice Hugo L. Black
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing. Kingsley Amis |
