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"Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice."
-- Holbrook Jackson
"Every burned book enlightens the world."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953
"[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric."
-- John Marshall Harlan, Supreme Court justice, 1971
"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings."
-- Heinrich Heine
"Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance."
-- Lyndon Baines Johnson, February 11, 1964
"Did you ever hear anyone say 'That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me'?"
-- Joseph Henry Jackson
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