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Every decent liberal should defend his right to speak against the latter-day totalitarians who denied it yesterday.

The plaintiffs argue that the law is particularly suspect because it targets those who speak against abortion.

When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.

Cobden consented, and at the meeting was much struck by Bright's short speech, and urged him to speak against the Corn Laws.

By the same rule, if I disliked America I should speak against it.

He had no wish to speak against the Church, but such was the case.

It says, "we are holy and inspired; if you speak against us you blaspheme God, for we are his children."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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