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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

I’m youth, I’m joy, I’m a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I won’t talk about what it was like in prison, except to say I’m glad I’m out and that I plan never to go back and to pay my taxes every day.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom.

We acknowledge but one motive – to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.