Free speech is meaningless ...

Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.
Free speech is meaningless unless it tolerates the speech that we hate.
 Henry Hyde

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted
 Henry Hyde
I certainly would like to prevent, if I could legally, anybody having an abortion, a rich woman, a middle-class woman, or a poor woman. Unfortunately, the only vehicle available is the…Medicaid bill.
 Henry Hyde