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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 readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. – Demosthenes

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The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience. – James T. Farrell

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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. – John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859

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