"There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans...and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast."
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Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
(1813-1887) American abolitionist, clergyman
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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit, 1887
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    Our Freedoms of speech is under attack. We need God in America Again!
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