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

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

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. – Salman Rushdie

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

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