Quote by Colin Powell
Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outr

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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Wouldnt it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind? – Colin Powell

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great
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In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people thats called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. – Colin Powell

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legal
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We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. – 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

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

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

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

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Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change. – Author Unknown

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The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish. – Pope John Paul II

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Family

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them. – Abigail Adams

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Language

I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me — I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Seduction