Censors are necessary, ...

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
 Don Marquis

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

Quotes from the same author

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
 Don Marquis
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
 Don Marquis
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
 Don Marquis
From 'the lesson of the moth': and before i could argue him out of his philosophy he went and immolated himself on a patent cigar lighter i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity but at the same time i wish there was something i wanted as badly as he wanted to fry himself
 Don Marquis
Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
 Don Marquis