Quote by David Ben-Gurion
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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Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen… Their faith is their passport. – David Ben-Gurion

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Faith
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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 no to be feared. – David Ben-Gurion

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Bravery
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Censorship
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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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Censorship

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man! – Thomas Carlyle

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Censorship

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion. – David Cronenberg

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Censorship

Did you ever hear anyone say, “That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?” – Joseph Henry Jackson

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Censorship

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You know you’re a skydiver when you are thinking about taking all the but the driver’s seats out of your car. – Author Unknown

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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal. – Robert Byrd

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