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The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

It's people who are repressed and cannot express their fears that are dangerous.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.

The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.