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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human be

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all. – Heinrich Heine

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

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Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. – Voltaire

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We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy

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