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.


Address to the National Book Awards ceremony in New York City (March 8, 1967), reported in The New York Times (March 9, 1967), p. 42.

Hubert Humphrey Quotes

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....

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....

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....

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....