"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."
----Wole SOYINKA

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

"It is clear that the freedom of expression and opinion is a fundamental right, the mother of all rights."
-----Abid HUSSAIN

"To speak his thoughts is every freeman's right, in peace and war, in council and in fight."
-----HOMER The Iliad

"Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease and bring new elements of health; and where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred, and death comes fast."
-----Henry Ward BEECHER

"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race."
-----Charles BRADLAUGH