The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may

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

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. – John Milton

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