On Free Speech...

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Ben Franklin
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. "
- Benjamin Franklin"
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Voltaire

"A danger sign of the lapse from true skepticism in to dogmatism is an inability to respect those who disagree" - Dr.
Leonard George

"If we do not believe in freedom of expression for those despise we do not believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think
differently." - riedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)

"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. " - Justice William O. Douglas

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they never use." - Soren Aabye
Kierkegaard

"Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom and no such thing as public liberty without freedom
of speech." - Benjamin Franklin, 1722

"In some of its more lunatic aspects, political correctness is merely ridiculous. But in the thinking behind it, there is
something more sinister which is shown by the fact that already there are certain areas and topics where freedom of
speech, in the sense of the right to open and frank discussion, is being gradually but significantly eroded." - Retiring
Judge Neil Denison, who as Common Serjeant of London since 1993 was one of Britain's most prominent judges, as
quoted by the London Daily Telegraph.

"In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which
the Founders hoped and trusted they would do." - Hugo L Black, Associate Justice, US Supreme Court - Concurring
opinion in 6-3 ruling that upheld the press’s right to publish the Pentagon Papers, 30 Jun 71

"Freedom of Press is limited to those who own one." - H.L. Menken

"Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought." - Graham Greene, British novelist

"Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine
the bounds of censorship." - Aryeh Neier, Civil Libertarian

"You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their
police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of
society where men may not speak their mind -- where children denounce their parents to the police -- where a
businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society
cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world." - Winston Churchill, explaining why
Nazism is the enemy of Democracy in a BBC radio address - 10/16/1938

"If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer not to me." - Larry Flynt

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it" - Mark Twain

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 "I'm getting tired of ... all this stupid bullshit we have to listen to all time about 'Children'. It's all you hear in this
country. "Children ... Help the Children ... What about the Children? ... Save the Children". You know what I say?...
Fuck the children!" - George Carlin

"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every man has a right to knock him down for it." - Dr. Samuel
Johnson English author, lexicographer

"When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever
existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write
and speak no more." - John Adams

"The Internet is the next Kent State, and we're the ones who are probably going to get shot." - Yetzer-Ra, Hacker -
Quoted in Inside the world of a 'hactivist', by Deborah Radcliff (cnn.com), October 18, 2000

"And you have the right to free speech, as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it..." - The Clash, "Know Your
Rights"

"We forbid any course that says we restrict free speech." - Kathleen Dixon, the director of the women's studies
department at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

"Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government"." - Lenny Bruce

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