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

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

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

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