

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
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“Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.”
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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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