“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.” ~ Granville Hicks
“Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.” ~ Dick Cavett
“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.” ~ Eugene Gladstone O’Neill
“Censorship reflects society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” ~ Potter Stewart
“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.” ~ Clare Booth Luce
“Every burned book enlightens the world.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest of cowardice.” ~ Holbrook Jackson
“Free speech not only lives, it rocks!” ~ Oprah Winfrey
“Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.” ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Freedom of speech is useless without freedom of thought.” ~ Spiro Agnew
“Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.” ~ Hugo L. Black
“Great spirits have always faced violent protest from mediocre minds.” ~ Albert Einstein
“I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
“I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech.” ~ Nancie J. Carmody
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” ~ Voltaire
“I don’t believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.” ~ Tom Petty
“I support the bigot’s right to speak out, as if I start limiting them, they may start limiting me. I also support my right to ignore them.” ~ Laura Packer
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ~ George Washington
“If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.” ~ Noam Chomsky
“Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.” ~ William Orville Douglas
“Restriction on 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.” ~ William Orville Douglas
“Take away the right to say “f*ck” and you take away the right to say ‘f*ck the government’.” ~ Lenny Bruce
“The censor’s sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.” ~ Earl Warren
“The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.” ~ Walt Whitman
“The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.” ~ Tommy Smothers
“The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.” ~ David Ben-Gurion
“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.” ~ Voltaire
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” ~ John F. Kennedy
“We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.” ~ Voltaire
“Who will watch the watchers?” ~ Decimus Junius Juvenalis
“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
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” ~ John Morley
