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I am opposed to censorship. Censors are pretty sure fools. I have no confidence in the suppression of everyday facts.

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.