The freedom to share one’s insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienable right of humanity that, as a universal human right, is above all the rights of princes.
Carl Friedrich Bahrdt
Carl Friedrich Bahrdt (1740–1792), German theologian and publicist. On Freedom of the Press and Its Limits: For Consideration by Rulers, Censors, and Writers, p. 44 (1787).