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Quote[0] = "\"All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.\" --George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)";
Quote[1] = "\"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 of the Constitution (1791)";
Quote[2] = "\"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.\" --Voltaire (1694 - 1778)";
Quote[3] = "\"I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?'\" --Mike Godwin (First staff counsel of the Electronic Frontier Foundation)";
Quote[4] = "\"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.\" --George Washington (1732 - 1799)";
Quote[5] = "\"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.\" --Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)";
Quote[6] = "\"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understading.\" --Louis D. Brandeis (1856 - 1941)";
Quote[7] = "\"The Net interprets censorship as damage... and routes around it.\" --John Gilmore (One of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation)";
Quote[8] = "\"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.\" --Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)";
Quote[9] = "\"...true freedom of speech, especially on controversial subjects, is difficult or impossible unless individuals can speak anonymously. If anonymity was not offered, then they could be subject to threat or reprisal for voicing an unpopular view. This is one reason why voting is done by secret ballot in many democracies, to prevent this kind of intimidation.\" --WorldHistory.com";
Quote[10] = "\"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.\" --Edward M. Forster (1879 - 1970)";
Quote[11] = "\"If the press is not free, if speech is not independent and untrammeled, if the mind is shackled or made impotent through fear, it makes no difference under what form of government you live, you are a subject and not a citizen.\" --William E. Borah (1907 - 1940)";
Quote[12] = "\"Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.\" --Holbrook Jackson (1874 - 1948)";
Quote[13] = "\"Liberty of thought means liberty to communicate one's thought.\" --Salvador de Madariaga (1886 - 1978)";
Quote[14] = "\"Protections for anonymous speech are vital to democratic discourse.\" --US Supreme Court (McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission)";
Quote[15] = "\"The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.\" --James Farrell (1904 - 1979)";
Quote[16] = "\"It is our attitude toward free thought and free expression that will determine our fate.\" --William O. Douglas (1898 - 1980)";
Quote[17] = "\"In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.\" --Tiberius (42 BC - 37 AD)";
Quote[18] = "\"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.\" --Henry L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)";
Quote[19] = "\"One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence.\" --Charles Austin Beard (1874 - 1948)";
Quote[20] = "\"We believe that free communication is essential to the preservation of a free society and a creative culture.\" --American Library Association";
Quote[21] = "\"Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die...\" --John Peter Altgeld (1847 - 1902)";
Quote[22] = "\"The loss of anonymity is something that nobody can prepare you for. When it happened, I recognized that I'd lost one of the most valuable things in life. To this day, I'm not all that happy about it.\" --Harrison Ford";
Quote[23] = "\"Did you ever hear anyone say, 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?'\" --Joseph Henry Jackson (1905 - 1990)";
Quote[24] = "\"Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they'll say, 'no.' If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they’ll say, 'Yes.'\" --Louis Joseph Freeh (10th Director of the FBI)";
Quote[25] = "\"Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.\" --John Adams (1735 - 1826)";
Quote[26] = "\"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real. Somewhere in their upbringing they were shielded against the total facts of our experience. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.\" --Henry Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)";
Quote[27] = "\"Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard of the day sets for the community. In other words, literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.\" --William O. Douglas (1939 - 1975)";
Quote[28] = "\"Restriction on free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.\" --William O. Douglas (1939 - 1975)";
Quote[29] = "\"Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech, no discovery of truth is useful.\" --Charles Bradlaugh (1833 - 1891)";
Quote[30] = "\"Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind. Persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize the oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all... It is plain that anonymity has sometimes been assumed for the most constructive purposes.\" --Hugo LaFayette Black (1937 - 1971)";
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