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Quote from Charles Bradlaugh,


"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.
Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people."


By:

Charles Bradlaugh (more quotes by Charles Bradlaugh or books by/about Charles Bradlaugh)


(1833-1891) English political activist and atheist, founded the National Secular Society in 1866

Source:

Speech, 1890

Categories:

Courage, Individual Rights, Individualism, Speech, Tolerance, Truth, Death

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