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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
 Neal Boortz

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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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The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.
 Neal Boortz
THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.
 Neal Boortz
The single most prevalent form of child abuse in this country is the act of sending a child to a government school. We worry incessantly about the separation of church and state. We would do well to devote half as much attention to the separation of government and education.
 Neal Boortz
You CAN NOT judge previous generations by today's standards. Today Mark Twain is called by many, a racist. By the standards of his time, he was a social liberal. Even Teddy Roosevelt was a social liberal at the time, but he accepted as fact that idea that Caucasians were inherently superior to all other races. That makes him a racist in the CORRECT definition of the term.
 Neal Boortz
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
 Neal Boortz