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The urge to censor

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019Categories speechTags Thomas Sowell

Error vs. reason

Error of opinion may be tolerated when reason is left free to combat it.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 15, 2018November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags Thomas Jefferson

Thoughts vs. actions

The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.

Author Greg RavenPosted on February 20, 2018November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags George Orwell

Modern ‘diversity’

When liberals clamor for ‘diversity,’ they don’t necessarily mean they are ready to tolerate actual disagreement.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 9, 2018November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags Joe Sobran

What free speech is

Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 14, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags Hugo L. Black

The importance of free speech

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 13, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags William O. Douglas

Defining political correctness

Political correctness is simply tyranny with manners.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 20, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags Charlton Heston

A certain spark of truth

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 5, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags Sir Francis Bacon

Douglas on the First Amendment

The dominant purpose of the First Amendment was to prohibit the widespread practice of government suppression of embarrassing information.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 1, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags William O. Douglas

Border watch

Would that our borders were policed as well as our speech.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 5, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags Ann Coulter

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