Harry S. Truman Quotes

If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

Some must speak and some must be still so that we can listen to the voices of the just and the silence of the sinners.

There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear.

People sometimes pay with their lives for saying aloud what they think. In fact, one can even get killed for giving me information. I am not the only one in danger. I have examples that prove it.

Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has been irreversibly programmed into our hard drive. We are free to speak our minds. An artist's right to express him or herself as best suits their art, is the artist's prerogative and it is guaranteed.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

I think the most destructive thing is fear: when people don't want to say what they think.

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

It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.

We should silence anyone who opposes the right to freedom of speech.

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

If you deny people their own voice, you'll have no idea of who they were.

It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want.

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.

I do not favor the gag order.

You can't cheer when political officials punish the expression of views you dislike and then expect to be taken seriously when you wrap yourself in the banner of free speech in order to protest state punishment of views you like and share.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Madame... I have come from a country where one can be hanged for what one says.