The great and invigorating influences in American life have been t

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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Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. – John Andrew Holmes

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

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

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