| "All silencing of
discussion is an assumption of infallibility ... But the peculiar evil of silencing
the expression of opinion is, that it is robbing the human race ... If the opinion is
right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they
lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of
truth, produced by its collision with error." (On Liberty, Chapter 2) |
