Philosophy on the Net
"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)
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