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Zechariah Chafee Quotes

1885–1957 United States

Zechariah Chafee, Jr. (December 7, 1885 – February 8, 1957) was an American judicial philosopher and civil libertarian. An advocate for free speech, he was described by Senator Joseph McCarthy as "dangerous" to the United States.

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Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.

Speech should be fruitful as well as free.

After all, if freedom of speech means anything, it means a willingness to stand and let people say things with which we disagree, and which do weary us considerably.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Zechariah Chafee (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.