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

— Zechariah Chafee

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"Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc." dissent by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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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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