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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

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Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
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The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.
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