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

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

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

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