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Benjamin N. Cardozo on Independence Day

1870–1938 United States

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Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Of that freedom [of thought and speech] one may say that it is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.

The Paradoxes of Legal Science (1928)

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