I think they should make it a felony to criticize a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American.

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.

Limiting the ability of the people to peacefully organize and partake in direct action to fight against persecution and discrimination is not only barred by the U.S. Constitution but is fundamentally...

We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so, we dilute the freedom this cherished emblem represents.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to...

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

The critical importance of honest journalism and a free flowing, respectful national conversation needs to be had in our country. But it is being buried as collateral damage in a war whose battles...

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

It is a confession of the weakness of our own faith in the righteousness of our cause when we attempt to suppress by law those who do not agree with us. Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York after WWI

If you think that political correctness is no big deal, just remember that the communists started by eliminating inconvenient people and ended by eliminating inconvenient people.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party? I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces. In the name of revolution, for thought crimes, such questions can turn me to ashes.

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet.

that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate;

Danny would have thought it comical if it had come from any other source, on any other day, in any other country. But Curtis had come to the table with something they'd never expected, something they...

Lies are considered true. Truth is considered seditious.

They made a list of a hundred books to test their system. Symbolism not lost on the librarian, nor on the bestselling author, they pulled Fahrenheit 451 first. The Call of the Wild, The Catcher in the...

attacking a Time correspondent for having wounded

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated,...