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For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding.… — Jacques Attali
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet… — Rick Boucher
Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear… — Larry Craig
[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these… — Harry Browne
The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may… — Townsend Harris
This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law. — John Yoo
The emergency problem of segregation and sterilization must be faced immediately. Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class,… — Margaret Sanger
Repeatedly and frankly we have announced that in Irans national security doctrine there is no room for atomic and chemical weapons as we consider them… — Ali Larijani
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was… — Robert Kennedy
Can an author with reason complain that he is cramped and shackled if he is not at liberty to publish blasphemy, bawdry, or sedition?; all… — Bill Vaughan
At least when the Emperor Justinian, a sky-god man, decided to outlaw sodomy, he had to come up with a good practical reason, which he… — Gore Vidal
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Obama had the audacity to say, 'I have unequivocally prohibited the use of torture by the United States.' Ladies and gentlemen, torture in the United… — Rush Limbaugh
It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be… — Thabo Mbeki
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people can live freely?… — Paul Robeson
I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of… — Cat Stevens
She met the magus's stunned look with a smile. "The Thieves of Eddis have always been uncomfortable allies to the throne, Magus. There is the… — Megan Whalen Turner
She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo
In Germany, under the law everything is prohibited except that which is permitted. In France, under the law everything is permitted except that which is… — Newton N. Minow
I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor… — Thomas Jefferson

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