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Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of read more
Without free speech no search for truth is possible… no discovery of truth is useful… Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win read more
Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.
One need not obey the rules
if he abandons a meaningless or cruel game.
One need not obey the rules
if he abandons a meaningless or cruel game.
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest read more
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
I gave my life for freedom--This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so.
I gave my life for freedom--This I know;
For those who bade me fight had told me so.
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal read more
A man who has nothing for which he willing to fight; nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
No one can ever defeat the Afghans
(in Rambeau 3).
No one can ever defeat the Afghans
(in Rambeau 3).
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying,
Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.
