Wednesday, April 6, 2011

FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION

"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
John Milton

"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all".  
Noam Chomsky

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
                                                                                                                      Voltaire

"For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people". 
                      John F. Kennedy

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
George Washington

"A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything".
                                                                                                    Napoleon Bonaparte

"The test of democracy is freedom of criticism".
                                                             David Ben-Gurion