No right seems more fundamental to American life than freedom of speech.
A lifelong skeptic, he disdained all individual rights, including the right to express one\'s polit.
Indeed, Free Speech as we know it comes less from the First Amendment than from a most unexpected source: Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Yet well into the twentieth century that freedom was still an unfulfilled promise, with Americans regularly imprisoned merely for speaking out against government policies.
No right seems more fundamental to American life than freedom of speech