"The liberty of speaking and writing guards..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.”

“[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.”

“It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.”

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.”

“In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.”

“Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted”

“During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its safety.”

“Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.”

“The only security of all is in a free press.”