' Freedom of Thought '...

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom;

and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech;

which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another;

and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know....

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech,

a thing terrible to traitors.



-Benjamin Franklin