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The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to l

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

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Every burned book enlightens the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the young, the unstable, the suggestible, the stupid. I have never heard of anyone who wanted a film banned because otherwise he might see it and be harmed. – Edgar Dale

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. – Abbott Joseph Liebling, “Do You Belong in Journalism?” The New Yorker, May 1960

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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

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