Certain Quote by J. Edgar Hoover

Everything which might cause doubt about the wisdom of the government or create discontent will be kept from the people. The basis of unfavorable…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into…

— Angela Merkel

Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in…

— Thomas I. Emerson

When information which properly belongs to the public is systematically withheld by those in power, the people soon become ignorant of their own affairs,…

— Richard M. Nixon

“[Censoring] knowledge, telling people what they must think and what ideas are impermissible, which lines of evidence may not be pursued, is the aperture…

— Carl Sagan

“Denial can cause the inability to view matters as they are.”

— Steven Redhead

It's enshrined in our Constitution that an individual has a right to release information and disseminate information that makes the powers that be uncomfortable.

— Moby

There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there…

— Alberto Gonzales

Living in truth cannot be reduced to having access to full information.

— Ivan Krastev

Citizens have to fight suppression of information on matters of vital public importance. To tell the truth is not a crime.

— Edward Snowden

Truth is suppressed, not to protect the country from enemy agents but to protect the Government of the day against the people.

— Roy Hattersley

Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.

— Anonymous