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free speech

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free speech
n.
The right to express any opinion in public without censorship or restraint by the government.

free speech
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the right to express one's opinions publicly
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free speech nlibertà di parola
free speech nlibertà di parola


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It is but the other day that the brave Lovejoy gave his breast to the bullets of a mob, for the rights of free speech and opinion, and died when it was better not to live.
This town is said to have the largest houses for oxen, cows, and horses hereabouts, and it is not behindhand in its public buildings; but there are very few halls for free worship or free speech in this county.
"Whereas," says he, "Mr Clennam might now believe, if I entertained his proposition, that I had a sinister and designing motive in what was open free speech.
 
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