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CLASSICS
"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end,
the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion".
~Henry Steele Commager
"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame".
"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen".
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me.
Now they are content with burning my books".
~Sigmund Freud, 1933
"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
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all".
~Noam Chomsky
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
~Voltaire
"Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."
~Lenny Bruce
" It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine
our fate. There must be no limit on the range of temperate discussion, no limits on thought.
No subject must be taboo. No censor must preside at our assemblies".
-William O. Douglas
“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.”
Herbert Hoover
“What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.”
Hansell B. Duckett
“Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.”
Warren E. Burger
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions.
It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.”
Orville Douglas
"We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard".
~Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764
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