"I have always been among those who..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.
More by Woodrow Wilson
More on Free Speech
“Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.”
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”
“Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.”
More on Safety
“The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.”
“When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise.”
“Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.”