The authors of the ‘Cato Letters’ recalled how Greek general Timoleon replied when the people he had saved from oppression turned and bit him.

It should never be labelled ‘dangerous’ to subject Government policy to calm and honest criticism.

The tighter the US Government’s stranglehold on dissent grew, the harder Daniel Webster fought for freedom of speech.

John Milton reminded Parliament that the Truth wasn’t what they and their fact-checkers in Stationers’ Hall made it.

When Ambassador Molesworth criticised the government of Christian V, the Danish king cried ‘off with his head!’.

Though Arthur Clough had discovered that to be your own man was a long and toilsome path, it was not a path without hope.