“Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech; a Thing terrible to Publick Traytors.”
“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.”
— U.S. Supreme Court, Texas v. Johnson (1989).
“The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed — would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper — the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed for ever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.”
— George Orwell, 1984.
“Free speech is neither a privilege nor a partisan luxury. It’s the oxygen of democracy. Without it, elections are hollow, dissent is branded illegitimate, or worse, and truth becomes whatever those in power decree. History shows that silencing speech is both the path by which authoritarians rise and the tool by which they endure.”
— Jon Hyman, September 18, 2025.
Jon Stewart Goes Full North Korea with Effusive Praise of Trump on The Daily Show — via Consequence
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