American freedom Quote by William O. Douglas

“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily…

— William O. Douglas

“the subversion of free speech and free thought are the worst forms of subversion.”

— william douglas

“Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up…

— Simon Reynolds

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

— Richard Perle

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political…

— Leonard Cohen

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

— Anonymous

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

— Stephen Vizinczey

I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing…

— Barack Obama

Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.

— Rudolph Rummel

Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent…

— Chuck Jones

Opinions become dangerous to a state only when persecution makes it necessary for the people to communicate their ideas under the bond of secrecy.

— Charles James Fox

I think the enemy is self-censorship. In a free society the biggest danger is that you're afraid to the point where you censor yourself.

— Tim Robbins