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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.
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