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• The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

  Frank Zappa

  Missing You, Emotional, Eyebrows

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• The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition, falsity, or misinformation. And there is no better system for determining the truth than free speech: Testing the validity of an idea in the waters of public discussion and debate.

  Dave Rodgers

  Truth, Ideas, Water

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• You cannot extend the mastery of government over the daily life of a people without somewhere making it master of people's souls and thoughts.... Every step in that direction poisons the very roots of liberalism. It poisons political equality, free speech, free press, and equality of opportunity. It is the road not to more liberty but to less liberty.

  Herbert Hoover

  Opportunity, Government, Roots

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President”

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• No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

  Carl L. Becker

  Time, Lying, Law

  Carl L. Becker (1960). “Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life”

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• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Teaching, Diversity, Social Justice

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• But in reality the point of free speech is for the stuff that’s over the line, and strikingly unbalanced. If free speech is only for polite persons of mild temperament within government-policed parameters, it isn’t free at all. So screw that.

  Mark Steyn

  Reality, Government, Lines

  Mark Steyn (2014). “The Undocumented Mark Steyn”, p.370, Regnery Publishing

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• Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

  Horace

  Judging, Judgement, Internet

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• There is no such thing as part freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Criminal Mind, Internet

  Nelson Mandela (1998). “In the Words of Nelson Mandela”, Birch Lane Press

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• Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

  Jon Lester

  Space, Calling, Internet

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• In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.

  Hugo Black

  War, Government, Afterlife

  "New York Times Co. v. United States, 403 U.S. 713". Concurring opinion, 1971.

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• The best answer to bad speech is good speech

  Alan Dershowitz

  Answers, Speech, Internet

  Alan M. Dershowitz (1994). “Contrary to Popular Opinion”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I love to doubt as well as know.

  Dante Alighieri

  Love, Doubt, Internet

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• The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.

  Michael Shermer

  Liberty, Speech, Libertarian

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• Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Giving, Weakness, Speech

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• The best legacy I can leave my children is free speech, and the example of using it.

  Philip Sidney

  Children, Example, Legacy

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• But we either believe in democracy or we don't. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed. If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Men, Law

  Legislative Assembly Debates, April 27, 1955.

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• The Internet is a powerful example of free speech and the free market in action; it is curious that the Net has alarmed the lawmakers of a nation founded on those principles.

  Denise Caruso

  Powerful, Principles, Example

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• Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

  Denis Leary

  Trying, Speech, Comedy

  Denis Leary (2008). “Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid”, p.58, Penguin

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• I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.

  Dana Carvey

  Country, Hate, Thinking

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• I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

  Jeff Dunham

  Christian, Jobs, Believe

  "Comedian Defends 'Achmed the Dead Terrorist' Puppet Routine Against South African Ban" by Joshua Rhett Miller, www.foxnews.com. October 2, 2008.

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• If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

  Ai Weiwei

  Single Life, Speech, Vain

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• Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

  Claude Shannon

  Mean, Cybernetics, Use

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• There is a First Amendment right to speak in a encrypted way.... The right to speak P.G.P. is like the right to speak Navajo. The Government has no particular right to prevent you from speaking in a technical manner even if it is inconvenient for them to understand.

  Eben Moglen

  Government, Way, Firsts

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• A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

  Robert McNamara

  Inspiring, Writing, Computer Literacy

  Robert S. McNamara (1968). “The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Passion, Information

  Gregory Benford (2010). “Timescape”, p.182, Spectra

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