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

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

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

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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