Thursday, February 21, 2008

Freedom of speech - christiansquoting.org.uk

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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