Censorship Quotes

Censorship, in my opinion, is a stupid and shallow way of approaching the solution to any problem... because in censorship always lurks the very great danger of working to the disadvantage of the American nation.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

A people or a party that is young and sober and confident and free has no need of censors to purify its thought or stiffen its will.

But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.