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... AND CENSORSHIP

In the long run of history,
the censor and the inquisitor
have always lost.

— A. W. Griswold

Literature should not be
suppressed merely because it
offends the moral code of the
censor. ... Restriction of free
thought and free speech is the
most dangerous of all
subversions. It is the one
un-American act that could
most easily defeat us.

— William O. Douglas

The first condition of
progress is the removal of
censorship.

— George Bernard Shaw

If we think we must
regulate printing, thereby to
rectify manners, we must
regulate all recreations and
pastimes, all that is delightful
to man.

— John Milton

Don't join the book
burners.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower