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Freedom of speech Quotes

"You don't have to burn books to destroy culture."

"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"

"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum."

"Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it"

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. "

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

"People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion."

"You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em but you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em"

"It's not safe enough to speak, and it never will be. But the thing you've got to keep in mind is that it's even less safe not to speak."

"No one will ever accept anything I have to say and that's okay. The point is to make people think"

"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."

"When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand."

"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it."

"We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?"

"There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard."

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