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Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote in ''Whitney v. California'', 274 U.S. 357
Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote in ''Whitney v. California'', 274 U.S. 357
(1927):
(1927):
*[The Founding Fathers] believed that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you
*[The Founding Fathers] believed that freedom to think as you will and to speak as you think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth; that without free speech and assembly discussion would be futile; that with them, discussion affords ordinarily adequate protection against noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be a fundamental principle of the American government. <ref> [http://www.cwfa.org/images/content/hecklers-veto-05.pdf] </ref>
think are means indispensable to the discovery and spread of political truth; that without
free speech and assembly discussion would be futile; that with them, discussion affords
ordinarily adequate protection against noxious doctrine; that the greatest menace to
freedom is an inert people; that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should
be a fundamental principle of the American government. <ref> [http://www.cwfa.org/images/content/hecklers-veto-05.pdf] </ref>
== What Free Speech is Not ==
== What Free Speech is Not ==