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April 18, 2015
To exercise your right of free speech you have to fight against economic pressure and against strong sections of public opinion,
You can say or print almost anything so long as you are willing to do it in a hole-and-corner way. But what is sinister, as I said at the beginning of this essay, is that the conscious enemies of liberty are those to whom liberty ought to mean most. The big public do not care about the matter one way or the other. They are not in favour of persecuting the heretic, and they will not exert themselves to defend him. They are at once too sane and too stupid to acquire the totalitarian outlook. The direct, conscious attack on intellectual decency comes from the intellectuals themselves. George Orwell, The Prevention of Literature
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If I exercise my right to keep and bear arms I can exercise all the other rights.
I wouldn't even have to ask permission.
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at April 19, 2015 7:21 AM