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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
Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. Wole Soyinka
One man's vulgarity is another's lyric. Justice John Marshall Harlan
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
If you can't annoy somebody with what you write, I think there's little point in writing. Kingsley Amis
To hear one voice clearly, we must have freedom to hear them all. Kerry Brock |
