Mark Twain on Censorship
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“Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.”
“But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.”