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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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

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

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

The freedom of the press works in such a way that there is not much freedom from it. – Grace (Patricia) Kelly

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