Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by fao_ 3726 days ago
But in no case was the right of speech lost, merely the right of audience, or rather, of publicity.
1 comments

"Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself."