Censorship Quote by Benjamin Franklin

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which…

— Benjamin Franklin

The principle of free speech is no new doctrine born of the Constitution of the United States. It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples,…

— Anonymous

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of…

— Frederick Douglass

“Free speech is the antidote to tyranny, a powerful force that dismantles the walls of oppression and allows the sunlight of scrutiny to pierce…

— James William Steven Parker

Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in…

— Abraham Lincoln

“At the heart of every flourishing democracy is the unyielding commitment to free speech. It is the beacon that illuminates the path towards a…

— James William Steven Parker

Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and oppressors, and…

— Benjamin Franklin

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

— George Berkeley

“Any nation allowing its people the right of freedom of speech is powerless to defend itself against enemies masquerading as patriotic; and seeking to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always…

— Hugo Black

“Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that…

— Louis D. Brandeis

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

— Anonymous