I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. .... Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
This election is about who's going to be the next President of the United States!
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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
