“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
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“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."
[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
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[Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
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“Free speech is the right to shout 'theater' in a crowded fire.”
― Steal This Book
― Steal This Book
“Hypocrites get offended by the truth.”
― Bad Romance: Seven Deadly Sins Anthology
― Bad Romance: Seven Deadly Sins Anthology
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
― Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings
― Silence Dogood / The Busy-Body / Early Writings
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