# Conclusion Quote Needed **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 3, 2001, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conclusion-quote-needed/96562 "2001-12-03T04:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conclusion-quote-needed/96562/1 "2001-12-03T04:24:13Z")
I am writing a research paper on Free Speech and Censorship, and I am almost done. I like to end my essays with a quote and then an idea at the end for the reader to think about, but I am at a loss for the quote. I am not asking you guys to do my homework for me, please don’t think that, I just need suggestions because the only ones I’ve found, I can’t work with very well. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conclusion-quote-needed/96562/2 "2001-12-03T04:31:00Z")
Without knowing the point you wish to make, perhaps you should look [here](http://quotes.forbiddenlibrary.com/) and pick your own. Or [here](http://www.annabelle.net/topics/censorship_and_free_speech.html). ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conclusion-quote-needed/96562/3 "2001-12-03T04:36:15Z")
Thanks a lot **don’t ask** , I think that’s what I should have asked in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conclusion-quote-needed/96562/4 "2001-12-03T20:09:47Z")
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.” - Oscar Wilde ---
**Author:** ![micco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@micco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/micco)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conclusion-quote-needed/96562/5 "2001-12-03T20:30:56Z")
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” - US Constitution “What part of ‘make no law’ don’t you understand?” - [William Bennett Turner](http://www.wired.com/wired/4.03/no.law.html) ---
**Author:** ![SteverinoAlaReno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@SteverinoAlaReno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteverinoAlaReno)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conclusion-quote-needed/96562/6 "2001-12-03T21:49:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ladyfoxfyre \* > \*\*I am writing a research paper on Free Speech and Censorship, and I am almost done. I like to end my essays with a quote and then an idea at the end for the reader to think about, but I am at a loss for the quote. I am not asking you guys to do my homework for me, please don’t think that, I just need suggestions because the only ones I’ve found, I can’t work with very well. > Thanks in advance. \*\* How about this one: “Where men may speak freely, they do not act.” I don’t know who said it, though, but it’s a good one for your topic. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conclusion-quote-needed/96562/7 "2001-12-03T23:25:16Z")
Thanks all, I decided to go with, “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” and ended it saying something about how no matter how much free thoughts are censored from us, they will continue to exist even without a means with which to share them to the world. ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conclusion-quote-needed/96562/8 "2001-12-04T05:35:25Z")
Shoot, I wanted to suggest this one: “Girls lean back everywhere” It’s the title of a great book detailing the censorship battles over the last century, but also a line from a judge’s decision. Basically, he was saying that, despite what gets published or filmed, it doesn’t change men (and women’s) basic drives. Or there’s always Menckens, “I never knew a good girl ruined by a bad book.” Much snappier. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2001, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conclusion-quote-needed/96562/9 "2001-12-04T06:02:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ladyfoxfyre \* > \*\*Thanks all, I decided to go with, “You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” and ended it saying something about how no matter how much free thoughts are censored from us, they will continue to exist even without a means with which to share them to the world. \*\* A wise choice, Morley made another point about individual freedom when he said, “Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”