Who said “Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”?

“If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”

“The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.”

“How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.”

“A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.”

“The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it.”

“Our lives teach us who we are.”

“Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.”

“The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas -- uncertainty, progress, change -- into crimes.”

“Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.”

“Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.”

“If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.”