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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In a certain sense every creative person is a reformer, but this does not mean that he must be in his work a propagandist for good roads, shorter hours, and a low tariff. All these are excellent things, but they need not be the concern of the artist. – Heywood Broun

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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all. – 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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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. – Colin Powell

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

We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner. – Frank Hague

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