Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
In government, you're not a writer, you're an administrator.
I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.
If you make a gun, you are either going to sell it or you are going to use it. And if you're going to sell it, someone else is going to use it.
As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.
An intellectual's weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet.
As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.
Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.