"If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

" -- George Washington "The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823. "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech." --Ben Franklin in Silence Dogood