The vast number of titles which are published each year — all of them are to the good, even if some of them may annoy or even repel us for a time. For none of us would trade freedom of expression and of ideas for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

Hubert Horatio Humphrey (1911–1978) American politician

Address, National Book Awards, New York City (8 Mar 1967)