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."
[The One Un-American Act, Speech to the Author's Guild Council in New York, on receiving the 1951 Lauterbach Award (December 3, 1952)]
Tags: liberty freedom democracy freedom-of-thought first-amendment freedom-of-speech
If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George WashingtonTags: 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 RooseveltTags: 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. TallentyreTags: 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 CommagerTags: 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]
Tags: 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 OrwellTags: liberty freedom-of-speech
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John MiltonTags: 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 MadisonTags: 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 FranklinTags: liberty freedom freedom-of-speech
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