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Heartstrings

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Sun Apr 29, 2018, 12:38 AM Apr 2018

Thomas Jefferson and Herbert Hoover weigh in on free speech....



"It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own." Herbert Hoover
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Thomas Jefferson and Herbert Hoover weigh in on free speech.... (Original Post) Heartstrings Apr 2018 OP
Excellent and timely quotes! kentuck Apr 2018 #1
You're welcome, kentuck! Heartstrings Apr 2018 #2
I was just thinking of that Jefferson quote just a bit ago. kentuck Apr 2018 #3

kentuck

(110,950 posts)
3. I was just thinking of that Jefferson quote just a bit ago.
Sun Apr 29, 2018, 01:44 AM
Apr 2018

About choosing between government without newspapers or newspapers without government, and that he would choose he latter.

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