Quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 

"Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from bondage of irrational fear."

Quote by:
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
(1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice, also known as "The Great Dissenter"
Source:
dissenting Gitlow v. People of State of New York 1925
 
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