
“In the famous words of Voltaire: ‘I detest what you say; I will defend to the death your right to say it’. If the intellectual liberty which without a doubt has been one of the distinguishing marks of western civilization means anything at all, it means that everyone shall have the right to say and to print what he believes to be the truth … . If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell, from his essay The Freedom of the Press, originally written to be the preface to Animal Farm, but was ultimately omitted from the book.