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Take away the right to say

Take away the right to say “fuck” and you take away the right to say “fuck the government.” – Lenny Bruce

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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. – Lenny Bruce

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We do not fear censorship for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue – D.W. (David Wark) Griffith

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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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A free press can be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom a press will never be anything but bad. – Albert Camus

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Censorship: protecting you from reality. – Author unknown

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