“The village atheist has the right to be heard; he has no right to be heeded. While he has a right not to have his own children indoctrinated in what he believes are false and foolish teachings, he has no right to dictate what…

“All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance — unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion, have the full protection of the guarantees [of the First Amendment].” Justice William J. Brennan, (1906-1997) U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source:…

“The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that – however…

“We must protect the freedoms of even those who hate us, and that we may find objectionable. If we fail in this task, we become victims of the precedents we create.” Judge Robert Doumar, (1930-) Senior U.S. District Judge of the U.S. District…

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” Dr. Samuel Johnson, (1709-1784) English author, poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Source Reference Famous Dr. Samuel Johnson Quote

“The bill for establishing religious freedom, the principles of which had, to a certain degree, been enacted before, I had drawn in all the latitude of reason & right. It still met with opposition; but, with some mutilations in the…

“Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate…

“A free press stands as one of the great interpreters between the government and the people. To allow it to be fettered is to fetter ourselves.” George Sutherland, (1862-1942) U. S. Supreme Court Justice. Source: Grosjean v. American Press Co., 1936….

“But this is slavery, not to speak one’s thought.” Euripides, (480-406 B.C.). Source: The Phoenician Women, 411-409 B.C. Source Reference Euripides Quote

“Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing Freedom of Speech… Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech…” Cato John Trenchard, (1662-1723) & Thomas…

“The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.” Carl Friedrich Bahrdt,…

“The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.” Junius, the pseudonym of a writer who contributed a series of letters to the London Public Advertiser, from January 21, 1769 to…