[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul… – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897 [characte

I am thankful for all the complaining I hear about our government because it means we have freedom of speech. – Nancie J. Carmody

We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard. – Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique, 1764

That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well. – Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1821 (“Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher v