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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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

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

Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. – Colin Powell

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

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