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Private rights are a public good

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual’s private rights.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 26, 2021April 26, 2021Categories property, rights, speechTags Sir William Blackstone

Freedom of speech is paramount

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

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 22, 2021April 22, 2021Categories speechTags John Milton

Justifying freedom of speech

The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 12, 2021April 12, 2021Categories speechTags Henry Steele Commager

Finding the right answer

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 12, 2021April 12, 2021Categories speechTags Thomas Babington Macaulay

If we lose free speech

If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 12, 2021April 12, 2021Categories speechTags George Washington

Honest differences

Honest difference of views and honest debate are not disunity. They are the vital process of policy among free men.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 15, 2021March 15, 2021Categories speechTags Herbert Hoover

Private thoughts

Isn’t it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 7, 2021March 7, 2021Categories speechTags Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.

Power struggle

The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and … the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 23, 2021January 23, 2021Categories speechTags William O. Douglas

Confession

The political left’s attempts to silence ideas they cannot, or will not, debate are a confession of intellectual bankruptcy.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 9, 2021Categories speechTags Thomas Sowell

Speak without fear

It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think,
to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 25, 2020Categories speechTags Herbert Hoover

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“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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