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Speech Quotes by William O. Douglas
- The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating…
- The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it invites…
- The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue - questions and answers that pursue every…
- Motion pictures are of course a different medium of expression than the public speech, the radio, the stage, the novel, or the magazine. But the…
- The First and Fourteenth Amendments say that Congress and the States shall make "no law" which abridges freedom of speech or of the press. In…
- Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same…
- Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat…
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