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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Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. – Colin Powell

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

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

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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