Quote by Heywood Broun
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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

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Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room. – Heywood Broun

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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice is so pleasurable, that I assume it must be evil. – Heywood Broun

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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

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

Marks on paper are free — free speech — press — pictures all go together I suppose. – Georgia OKeeffe

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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The inertia hardest to overcome is that of perfectly good seconds. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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