free speech

"The best protection against evil is recognizing that it lies in every human heart and the possibility that it takes you over."

"Banning people from the town square is unpersoning them. Unless you violated a criminal statute, you should not be unpersoned in American society as a general rule."

"If you’re going to get involved in a war, you have to know what the endpoint looks like and you have to know what the American people really are willing to bear."

"Human beings are crap at mitigation and excellent in adaptation."

"Freedom of speech and thought matters, especially when it is speech and thought with which we disagree. The moment the majority decides to destroy people from engaging in thought it dislikes, thought crime becomes a reality."

"Cancel culture is the uptick of campaigns, especially successful campaigns starting around 2014 to get people fired, expelled, de-platformed, et cetera, for speech that would normally be protected by the First Amendment."

"The biggest sin in terms of censorship is called viewpoint discrimination, that essentially you allow freedom of speech except for that opinion."

"This will be laughed out of court."