If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, and tormented; (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.