William Allan White Quotes

So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold — by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.

You ought not in a free country to lay a tax on the expression of political opinion.

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

I do not favor the gag order.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost

A simple way to determine whether the right to dissent in a particular society is being upheld is to apply the town square test: Can a person walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm? If he can, then that person is living in a free society. If not, it's a fear society.

Freedom of the press and a free society either prosper together or perish together.

Every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

I would not wish to live in a world where I could not express my honest opinions. Men who deny to others the right of speech are not fit to live with honest men.

There is nothing so fretting and vexatious, nothing so justly TERRIBLE to tyrants, and their tools and abettors, as a FREE PRESS.

Honestly, this country was built on freedom of speech and freedom of expression, and when you can no longer do that, then it is no longer based on that, you know.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Marks on paper are free - free speech - press - pictures all go together I suppose.

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.

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

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

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

Journalism is irrepressible. It can't be taken away.

I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who's lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it cherishes the ability to be yourself and to have feelings and to speak them when asked. And I am that person.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

There should be no censorship of mail.

In this country you can say aloud or publish just about anything you like.