Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
Frederick Douglass
Showing posts with label Free Speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Free Speech. Show all posts
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
We Are On the Way To Living in Fear
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.
Harry S. Truman
Monday, December 21, 2020
Restricting Critical Examination?
The instant that any person or ideology is considered off-limits for critical examination and even ridicule, freedom of speech has been replaced by an ideological straitjacket.
Robert Spencer, The Truth About Muhammad, pg. 13.
Sunday, July 19, 2020
Monday, March 2, 2020
Free Speech
Everyone is in favour of free speech…but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
Winston Churchill, cited in The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill, edited by Max Morris, pg. 81
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