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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. Barbara Ehrenreich
Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Noam Chomsky
Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. Colin Powell
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
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost. Thomas Jefferson
Free speech not only lives, it rocks! Oprah Winfrey |
