"Freedom to publish means freedom for all and not for some. Freedom to publish is guaranteed by the constitution but freedom to continue to prevent others from publishing is not." -Justice Hugo L. Black (1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice Source: One Man’s Stand For Freedom, 1963 http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Hugo.Black.Quote.8F0B
"Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute." -Philip K. Howard New York attorney Source: The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America (New York: Random House 1994) http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Philip.Howard.Quote.1A2A
"Civil libertarians must often remind government officials (and others) that if the First Amendment only protected the expression of popular and agreeable ideas, it would be totally unnecessary since those ideas would never be threatened by our democratic form of government. Our society's commitment to free speech is tested when we encounter the expression of ideas that are disagreeable -- or even offensive." -Timothy Lynch Director of Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Timothy.Lynch.Quote.64AE
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