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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs.

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.