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The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. – Henry Steele Commager

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The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. – Tommy Smothers

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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

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I quit watching the debates after they excluded Ron Paul and censored supposedly live interviews with him from the tv. – James Dye

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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. – Sigmund Freud, 1933

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