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

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

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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