Quote by George Washington
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington

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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. – George Washington

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Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. – Alexander Meiklejohn

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Were giving our freedoms away. The American experiment was about freedom. Freedom to be stupid, freedom to fail, freedom to succeed. – Glenn Beck

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Freedom rings where opinions clash. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. – Graham Greene

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Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. – Plato

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The lawyers truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. – Henry David Thoreau

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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he cant think of anything else to do. – W. H. Auden

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New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody – Sarah Bernhardt

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