Monday, June 15, 2026

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I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

— James Baldwin

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

— George Orwell

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

— Euripides

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

— Potter Stewart

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

— Noam Chomsky

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

— Frederick Douglass

Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back.

— Gore Vida

In Russia we do have freedom of speech. We just don't have any freedom after speech.

— Arkady Rubenov

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

— Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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