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Freedom of thought and speech

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: That we may think what we like and say what we think.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 5, 2013November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories speechTags Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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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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