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Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease and bring new elements of health; and where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred, and death comes fast. Henry Ward Beecher
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. Claude Adrien Helvetius
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. Salman Rushdie
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. Benjamin Franklin
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. John F. Kennedy
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. Colin Powell
Opinion and protest are the life breath of democracy - even when it blows heavy. Lyndon B. Johnson
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 |
