...Lenin, one of the founders of modern communism, once asked: "Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is...believes to be right allow itself to be criticized?" The answer, of course, is that if the government is imposed by force on an unwilling or deceived people,...

...would end up being destroyed themselves by forces to the left of liberalism.121 FREEDOM-OF-SPEECH QUOTE "Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press...weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns." Lenin was no civil libertarian. A Russian Civil Liberties Union would have seemed as preposterous to...

...govern. Nikolai Lenin hinted at the answer to this question, in a speech he delivered in Moscow in 1920: Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press...Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should a man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass...

...(1885). "Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government that is doing what it believes to be right allow itself...weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns"— Nikolai Lenin, speech in Moscow, 1920. "Free press: two hundred men imposing their prejudices on two...

...freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government, doing what it believes is right, allow itself to be criticized? It would not...weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns." 44 Which political belief would this speaker support? (1) Societies need war to bring about progress....