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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Marks on paper are free — free speech — press — pictures all go together I suppose. – Georgia OKeeffe

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

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

The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. – Nadine Gordimer

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