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The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. - David Ben-Gurion

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism. – David Ben-Gurion

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Courage is… the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well. – Heinrich Heine, Almansor, 1821 (“Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher v

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[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul… – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897 [characte

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Censor, n. An officer of certain governments, employed to supress the works of genius. Among the Romans the censor was an inspector of public morals, but the public morals of modern nations will not bear inspection. – Ambrose Bierce

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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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