What Every College Must Do

Every Effort To Confine Americanism To A Single Pattern, To Constrain It To A Single Formula, Is Disloyalty To Everything That Is Valid In Americanism.

Censorship Always Defeats It Own Purpose, For It Creates In The End The Kind Of Society That Is Incapable Of Exercising Real Discretion.

The Americans Who Framed Our Constitution Felt That Without Freedom Of Religion No Other Freedom Counted.

The Justification And The Purpose Of Freedom Of Speech Is Not To Indulge Those Who Want To Speak Their Minds. It Is To Prevent Error And Discover Truth. There May Be Other Ways Of Detecting Error And Discovering Truth Than That Of Free Discussion, But So Far We Have Not Found Them.

We Cannot Have A Society Half Slave And Half Free; Nor Can We Have Thought Half Slave And Half Free. If We Create An Atmosphere In Which Men Fear To Think Independently, Inquire Fearlessly, Express Themselves Freely, We Will In The End Create The Kind Of Society In Which Men No Longer Care To Think Independently Or To Inquire Fearlessly.