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.

To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.