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"If any opinion be compelled to silence, that opinion may,
for aught we can certainly know, be true.
To deny this is to assume our own infallibility."

by:	John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher and economist
Source:	On Liberty, 1859
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Categories:	Censorship, Oppression, Speech
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-- Mike, Norwalk
While I know what he was trying to say, opinions, by definition, are neither true nor false. -- Joe, North Caldwell, NJ
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