The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88465   Message #1669647
Posted By: beardedbruce
15-Feb-06 - 03:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: The right to insult and cause offence
Subject: RE: BS: The right to insult and cause offence
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively
calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree but freedom for the thought that we hate."



--- Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

US v. Schwimmer, 279 US 644, 655 (1928)