“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”-U.S. Some people even go so far as to consider prohibited or confiscated books to be the best ones of all, for the prohibition indicates that their authors wrote what they really thought rather than what they were supposed to think. “ is a sign that one does not have a good case, or at least doesn't trust it enough to defend it with reasons and refute the objections.
We lose our individuality, because everything we do is observable and recordable.”- The Eternal Value of Privacy by Bruce Schneier We become children, fettered under watchful eyes, constantly fearful that-either now or in the uncertain future-patterns we leave behind will be brought back to implicate us, by whatever authority has now become focused upon our once-private and innocent acts. “For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. Through the harassment of hearings, investigations, reports, and subpoenas government will hold a club over speech and over the press."-U.S. If the lady from Toledo can be required to disclose what she read yesterday and what she will read tomorrow, fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes of the land. But that will be minor in comparison with the menace of the shadow which government will cast over literature that does not follow the dominant party line. The press and its readers will pay a heavy price in harassment. The books and pamphlets that are critical of the administration, that preach an unpopular policy in domestic or foreign affairs, that are in disrepute in the orthodox school of thought will be suspect and subject to investigation. When the light of publicity may reach any student, any teacher, inquiry will be discouraged. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The purchase of a book or pamphlet today may result in a subpoena tomorrow.
Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads.
MY FREEDOM DOES NOT END WHERE YOUR FEAR BEGIN FREE
"Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free press as we know it disappears. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.”-George Orwell, author, c. “If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.”- Harry Truman The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.”-Supreme Court Justice Anthony M.
“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. “Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting an Establishment of Religion, or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof or Abridging the Freedom of Speech, or of the Press or the Right of the People Peaceably to Assemble, and To Petition the Government for a Redress of Grievances.”- First Amendment
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