Quote by Heywood Broun
Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known.

Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital. – Heywood Broun

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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. – Heywood Broun

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The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may thing what we like and say what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart. – Heywood Broun

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. – John Milton

The liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. – Junius

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