Democrats like Brumar want to suppress freedom of speech.
"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
- George Washington
“Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government: When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins.”
- Ben Franklin
“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.”
- Ben Franklin
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
- Ben Franklin
“The liberty of the press is essential to the security of the state.”
- John Adams
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.”
-Thomas Jefferson
"I am ... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents."
-Thomas Jefferson
"The freedom of the press is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments."
-George Mason
"[The] power [to censor,] more than any other, ought to produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against that right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed, the only effectual guardian of every other right."
-James Madison
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.”
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo
“The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty."
-U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Douglass
“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."
-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis |
