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It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. – Herbert Hoover

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It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business. – Herbert Hoover

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It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war. – Herbert Hoover

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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. – Toni Morrison

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If those in charge of our society – politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television – can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. – Howard Zinn

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