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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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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. – Salman Rushdie

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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. – John Andrew Holmes

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