Don\’t join the book
Don’t join the book burners! Dwight D. Eisenhower
Book Banning
Censorship, like charity, should
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there. Clare Boothe Luce
The abuse dies in
The abuse dies in a day; but the denial slays the life of the people and entombs the hope of the race. Charles Bradlaugh
Without free speech no
Without free speech no search for Truth is possible; without free speech no discovery of Truth is useful. Charles Bradlaugh
Better a thousandfold abuse
Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. Charles Bradlaugh
If all printers were
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. Benjamin Franklin
Books won’t stay banned.
Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. Alfred Whitney Griswold
Books won’t stay banned.
Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. Alfred Whitney Griswold
There is more than
There is more than one way to burn a book. Ray Bradbury
There is more than
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women’s Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees … Read more