Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action,

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

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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

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

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

Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital. – Heywood Broun

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