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“There are two ways to choke off free expression. We've already discussed one of them: clamp down on free speech and declare some topics off-limits. That strategy is straightforward enough. The other, more insidious way to limit free expression is to try to change the very language people use.”
― No Safe Spaces
― No Safe Spaces
“It is a just and not a new observation that enemies to particular persons, and opponents to particular measures, seldom confine their censures to such things only, in either, as are worthy of blame.”
― The Federalist Papers
― The Federalist Papers
“It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than promoted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it.”
― The Federalist Papers
― The Federalist Papers
“... when you control the media and regulate speech in a country you can shape reality however you see fit.”
― The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
― The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba
“Cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them; that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT, good.”
― The Federalist Papers
― The Federalist Papers
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