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

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

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 liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. – Junius

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