“Complete and accurate surveillance as a means of control is probably a practical impossibility. What is much more likely is a loss of privacy and constant inconvenience as the wrong people gain access to information, as one wastes time convincing the inquisitors that one…

“The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress.” Thomas I. Emerson, (1907-1991) Lines Professor of Law, Yale University, author. Source: Law and Contemporary Problems (1955). Source Reference Thomas I. Emerson Quote

“If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.” Hans Eysenck, (1916-1997) German-born psychologist, spent professional career in Great Britain. Source Reference Hans Eysenck Quote

“Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the…

“I have never been hurt by anything I didn’t say.” Calvin Coolidge, (1872-1933) 30th US President. Source Reference Calvin Coolidge Quote

“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties, and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various…

“The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority… It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.” Frank I. Cobb, (1869-1923) American…

“The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.” Clarence S….

“And this I must fight against: any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the individual.  This is what I am and what I am about.  I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to…

“He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.” C. S. Lewis, (1898-1963), British novelist….

“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.” George Orwell, [Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author. Source Reference George Orwell Quote

“No, there is a limit to the tyrant’s power! When the oppressed man finds no justice, When the burden grows unbearable, he appeals With fearless heart to Heaven, And thence brings down his everlasting rights, Which there abide, inalienably his,…