The Framers [of the Constitution] knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

Hugo Black (1886-1971) American politician and jurist, US Supreme Court Justice (1937-71)
Address at the New York University School of Law (1960)

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