The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people that steal or are corrupt that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people or where warranted the reach of international law.

When one makes a Revolution one cannot mark time one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Since Castro took power the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion no freedom of the press no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

A free press can of course be good or bad but most certainly without freedom the press will never be anything but bad.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise we don't believe in it at all.

All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

In America through pressure of conformity there is freedom of choice but nothing to choose from.