Greg Gutfeld Quotes

Let us declare through the public journals of our country, that the question of Slavery is not and shall not be open to discussion; that the system is too deep-rooted among us, and must remain forever; that the very moment any private individual attempts to lecture us upon its evils and immorality, and the necessity of putting means in operation to secure us from them, in the same moment his tongue shall be cut out and cast upon the dunghill.

I was imprisoned for talking.

If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and has never worked.

It is dangerous to speak the truth to tyrants.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

People are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.

Suppressing ideas never makes them go away.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Sometimes it’s a short step from banning to burning.

Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you do the opinions will suppress you.

People like to quiet the speech of others.

The modern progressive movement believes that dissenting language is objectionable, which then removes the brakes between anger and violence.

I not only weaken the opposition, I’m going to make them dead ... and if anyone is strong enough to try to hold a demonstration, I will beat all those dogs and put them in a cage.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.