Joe Wurzelbacher Quotes

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Soviet repression taught the Russians that hope and trust are dangerous, inimical, and treacherous

Just as Chairman Mao and Joseph Stalin started by going after the intellectuals, against those whose words who might form an opposition to them, so Trump has gone across us. Free speech is first among equals when we look at what is being violated by this new regime.

The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.

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

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

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.

Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.

When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous.

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society.

Our political life is closed, and our freedoms usurped, and our people are oppressed, and fearful… if you don’t say what the ruler wants, you’re exiled beyond the sun.

… the greatest tyrant in the world; the greatest terrorist in the world.

It is dangerous to speak the truth to tyrants.

Silence coerced by law—the argument of force in its worst form.

When despots rule, cartoonists die.

In most of the countries where the people don’t like their government, we are now allowed to ask whether people like their government.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

Such is the terror--the crushing fear--which is inspired by one man over that multitude, which now submits to his decrees with a zeal, apparently as ardent, as it is certainly abject and submissive. There is not a complaint heard. The calm and dark waters of despotism are never disturbed by the slightest ripple. Not a breath of free thought or manly speech passes over them, but they lie dead and deep, into which every vestige of the people's liberty and freedom has sunk and disappeared.

Dissenters will become food for crocodiles.

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

A dictatorship breeds distrust.

You are not going to silence me. You are not going to silence America. You are literally like a little gangster thug. Rubio just threatened to silence me.

Those who criticize Putin are not human: they are my personal enemies.

Every country in history that has gone down dark paths, where governments take on too much control and really intervene and take away those freedoms, often start with an attack on the freedom to disagree.