The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newpapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
Brooks Atkinson, "December 11," Once Around the Sun (1951)
I am all in favour of free expression as long as it's kept rigidly under control.~ Alan Bennett 1934-, Forty Years On (1969)
The liberty of the press is most generally approved when it takes libertieswith the other fellow, and leaves us alone.
Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings(1911)
The right to profess the truth must always be upheld, but not in a way that involves contempt for those who may think differently. ~John Paul II
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks as truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.
Samuel Johnson
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. AJ Liebling
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties. John Milton
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