censorship - quotes

George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

was an Irish dramatist and socialist

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

( “The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet”, Preface, 1909 )

Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826

was a 3rd president of US

No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.

( letter to George Washington, September 9, 1792 )