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Speech should be fruitful as well as free.
Zechariah Chafee
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Zechariah Chafee
Age: 71 †
Born: 1885
Born: December 7
Died: 1957
Died: February 8
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Rhode Island
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Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. 'Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
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Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. 'Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
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We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.
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