| "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) |
