Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote in ''Whitney v. California'', 274 U.S. 357
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*[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>
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*[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 Hecklers-veto] </ref>
== What Free Speech is Not ==
== What Free Speech is Not ==
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The jury acquittal of [[John Peter Zenger]] (1735) in the colony of New York played an important early role in expanding freedom of press and free speech.
The jury acquittal of [[John Peter Zenger]] (1735) in the colony of New York played an important early role in expanding freedom of press and free speech.
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== See also ==
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*[[Free enterprise]]
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==External links==
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*[http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57800 Journalist, Columbia graduate to rip diploma over Iran prez] and the original article [http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57799 The day freedom died] at ''WorldNetDaily'', September 24, 2007.
== References ==
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*[http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57800 Journalist, Columbia graduate to rip diploma over Iran prez ]and the original article [http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57799 The day freedom died] at ''WorldNetDaily'', September 24, 2007.