If we are not free to speak heresy and utter awful thoughts, we are not free at all. The main thing is to use it well. A Biennial Anthology . Sanford Berman and James P. Danky, eds. Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
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They shout and rave, exaggerating weaknesses, magnifying error, viewing with alarm. The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They weighed the compulsions for the restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.