"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." - Thomas Jefferson

"It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body." - George Jean Nathan, The Autobiography of an Attitude

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship." - George Bernard Shaw, The Rejected Statement

"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye." - JOHN MILTON, Areopagitica