Decent Quote by William Henry Harrison

Government should be concerned with anti-social conduct, not with utterances.

— William Orville Douglas

The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated.

— Hugo Black

We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Repression and intimidation are not - and never should be - the acceptable companions of reform.

— Jamal Khashoggi

“The more a government strives to curtail freedom of speech, the more obstinately is it resisted; not indeed by the avaricious,... but by those…

— Will Durant

Yes, politicians form public policy, but shouldn't the bodies in charge of inspecting and implementing it be apolitical?

— Cathy Newman

“Through a carefully cultivated display of intimidation to anyone who contemplated a meaningful challenge, the government had striven to show people around the world…

— Glenn Greenwald

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Government should allow persons to engage in whatever conduct they want to, no matter how deviant or abnormal it may be, so long as…

— Hugo Adam Bedau

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

— Molly Ivins

The purely agitational attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

— Jawaharlal Nehru