How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks-who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty-the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak?


The Limitations of Toleration (ed. 1889)

Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who...

How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who...

How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who...

How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who...