“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.”

– Heinrich Heine

“Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.”

– Charles Bradlaugh

No means no. @VincentVinturi we have got your 'rape manual' book taken off Amazon http://t.co/7HJaA7v7Mn — Sara Nelson (@SaraCNelson) January 31, 2014

“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

– Winston Churchill