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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech i

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

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Ive never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. – Salman Rushdie

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The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes. – Salman Rushdie

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We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, That man is a Red, that man is a Communist. You never heard a real American talk in that manner. – Frank Hague

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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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

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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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