If none of us ever read a book that was 'dangerous,' had a friend who was 'different,' or joined an organization that advocated 'change,' we would all be just the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.
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Not all dangerous ideas are worth engaging with.
No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.
The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.
All I can hope to teach my son is to tell the truth and fear no man.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Without any censorship, in the West fashionable trends of thought and ideas are carefully separated from those which are not fashionable; nothing is forbidden,…
When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking, or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope …