Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the st…

- Zechariah Chafee

Speech should be fruitful as well as free.

- Zechariah Chafee

Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not hav…

- Zechariah Chafee

After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary …

- Zechariah Chafee

We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.

- Zechariah Chafee

You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a c…

- Zechariah Chafee