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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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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I dont know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community. – Colin Powell

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Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place. – Colin Powell

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The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution of way of life, or say and so things that make people think. – William O. Douglas

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 only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you dont agree with. – Eleanor Holmes Norton

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What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! – Terence

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Translation is an interestingly different way to be involved both with poetry and with the language that Ive found myself living in much of the time. I think the two feed each other. – Marilyn Hacker

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Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising. – E. W. Howe

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Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it. – Terry Goodkind

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