free speech

"We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still."

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859


"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."

Henry Steele Commager


"The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen."

Tommy Smothers