"Keep the books, burn the censors!"

"When they took the sixth amendment, I was quiet because I was innocent.
When they took the fourth amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs.
When they took the second amendment, I was quiet because I didn't own a gun.
Now they've taken the first amendment, and I can say nothing about it."

"I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Voltaire

"Whenever books are burned men also in the end are burned." --Heinrich Heine

"Censor: a self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business." --Bennett Cerf

"Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor." --Justice William Douglas

"Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed." --Dwight David Eisenhower

"All of us can think of a book ... that we hope none of our children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf -that work I abhor- then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us." --Katherine Paterson

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education." --Alfred Whitney

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

"With the first link, a chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." -Picard, ST:TNG, quoting a fictional judge, The Drumhead

"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech." -Justice Anthony Kennedy

"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself." -Salman Rushdie

"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." -Nadine Gordimer