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 primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars. – Nadine Gordimer

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

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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