Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks on the Administration's Continued Commitment to Protecting First Amendment Freedoms at the Justice Department’s Forum on Free Speech in Higher Education

• "Today, freedom of speech and thought have come most under attack on the college campus. That should shock us."

• "We have the oldest written Constitution still in use— 231 years. This brilliant document has stood the test of time. It has produced the most durable

government because it is based on the Founders’ deep understanding of human nature, power, and law. This understanding did not arise out of thin air,

but was the product of centuries of thought development."

• "This has gone too far. It must end. This country protects noisome assembly, immoderate speech and provocative speech. Whether left or right.

Suppression of competing voices is not the American way.

We have reached a pivotal, perhaps even an historic, moment. It is time to stand up to the bullies on campus and in our culture.

There are radicals out there now that have openly and systematically justified actions that would deny Americans the right to speak out against their

ideological agenda. We must put an end to this nonsense. It is time to put a stake in its heart.

We have to stand up to it. And we will do so—resolutely.

We are going to keep fighting for the great freedoms vouchsafed to the American people."

https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-sessions-delivers-remarks-administrations-continued-commitment

Washington, DC ~ Monday, September 17, 2018