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If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

George Washington

Stichwörter: freedom freedom-of-speech

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

Theodore Roosevelt

Stichwörter: dissent freedom-of-speech truth-telling

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

S.G. Tallentyre

Stichwörter: freedom-of-thought freedom-of-speech disagreement evelyn-beatrice-hall misattributed-to-voltaire

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. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

Henry Steele Commager

Stichwörter: censorship freedom-of-speech banned-books intellectual-freedom

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]

Harry Truman

Stichwörter: politics dissent censorship freedom-of-speech opposition repression

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

Stichwörter: liberty freedom-of-speech

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

John Milton

Stichwörter: liberty freedom conscience freedom-of-speech argument

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

Stichwörter: politics freedom-of-thought freedom-of-speech authority constitution

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Benjamin Franklin

Stichwörter: liberty freedom freedom-of-speech