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Free speech is to a great people what winds are to oceans and malarial regions, which waft away the elements of disease and bring new elements of health; and where free speech is stopped, miasma is bred, and death comes fast.

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-- Henry Ward Beecher, (Jun 24 1813-1887), US clergyman, abolitionist; He was famed as an orator of anti-slavery and woman suffrage; wrote Seven Lectures to Young Men, 1844.

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