Zechariah Chafee Quotes

• Each side takes the position of the man who was arrested for swinging his arms and hitting another in the nose, and asked the judge if he did not have a right to swing his arms in a free country. 'Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Country, Men, Swings

  Harvard Law Review, June 1919

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• 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.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Mean, People, Freedom Of Speech

  "Freedom of Speech" by Zechariah Chafee, Harcourt, Brace and Howe, (p. 366), 1920.

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• We have the right to swing our arm until it hits the other fellow's nose.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Swings, Noses, Arms

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counter-argument and time.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Wisdom, Country, Men

  Commission on Freedom of the Press, Zechariah Chafee (1947). “Government and Mass Communications”, Chicago : University of Chicago Press

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• Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined

  Zechariah Chafee

  Struggle, Government, Issues

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• Speech should be fruitful as well as free.

  Zechariah Chafee

  Speech, Should, Wells

  Commission on Freedom of the Press, Zechariah Chafee (1947). “Government and Mass Communications”, Chicago : University of Chicago Press

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