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3233. FREEDOM OF SPEECH, Government invasion of.—

There are rights which
it is useless to surrender to the government,
and which governments have yet always been
found to invade. [Among] these are the
rights of thinking, and publishing our
thoughts by speaking or writing.—
To David Humphreys. Washington ed. iii, 13. Ford ed., v, 89.
(P. 1789)