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Free Speech and Conscience
Passages defending the right and obligation of every citizen to judge whatever is good and true, and to talk back to those who govern him.
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Thank Heaven for Free Speech
By John Trenchard And Thomas Gibson
The authors of the ‘Cato Letters’ recalled how Greek general Timoleon replied when the people he had saved from oppression turned and bit him.
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No Danger in Discussion
As printed in The Morning Chronicle
It should never be labelled ‘dangerous’ to subject Government policy to calm and honest criticism.
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A Right and a Duty
By Daniel Webster
The tighter the US Government’s stranglehold on dissent grew, the harder Daniel Webster fought for freedom of speech.
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Truth By Statute?
By John Milton
John Milton reminded Parliament that the Truth wasn’t what they and their fact-checkers in Stationers’ Hall made it.
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Something Rotten in the State of Denmark
From The Bee, or Literary Intelligencer
When Ambassador Molesworth criticised the government of Christian V, the Danish king cried ‘off with his head!’.
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‘Westward, Look, the Land Is Bright!’
By Arthur Hugh Clough
Though Arthur Clough had discovered that to be your own man was a long and toilsome path, it was not a path without hope.
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