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

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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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I doubt whether the world holds for anyone a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. – Heywood Broun

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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

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Speech (freedom of)

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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other. – Heywood Broun

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