Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who suffers from a neurological disease causing his raspy voice, when not filtered through the warped, out-of-context manipulations of the mainstream media, has a way of succinctly capturing the essence of an idea.

Speaking before Congress yesterday, he was asked about the dangers of a government that practices censorship. Without hesitation, he offered the reply below, a message for the ages, which will stand the test of time:

“A government that can censor its critics has license for every atrocity. It is the beginning of totalitarianism. There’s never been a time in history when we look back, and the guys who were censoring people were the good guys,” he said.

“All of us grew up reading Arthur Koestler, Robert Heinlein, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and they were all saying the same thing: once you start censoring, you’re on your way to dystopia and totalitarianism.”

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