Quotations About Censorship

"Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book." 

                                    - Dwight D. Eisenhower  









“[I]t’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.” 
                                             - Judy Blume

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed." 

                                   - Benjamin Franklin 

"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education." 

                                   -Alfred Whitney Griswold 

"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." 

                        - Heinrich Heine (19th Century German Poet)

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there." 
                                                               - Clare Booth Luce







Thanks to the New Mexico State University Library for the great online resource guide about Censorship and Banned Books, the source for the above quotations.