Zechariah Chafee Quotes

Zechariah Chafee, Jr. , was an American professor of law, judicial philosopher and civil rights advocate. Defending freedom of speech, he was described by Senator Joseph McCarthy as "dangerous" to America. Legal scholar Richard Primus called Chafee "possibly the most important First Amendment scholar of the first half of the twentieth century." Wikipedia  

✵ 7. December 1885 – 8. February 1957
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Zechariah Chafee Quotes

“Speech should be fruitful as well as free.”

"Freedom of Speech as I See It Today", Journalism Quarterly, vol. 18 (June 1941), p. 158.

“Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.”

"Freedom of Speech in Wartime", 32 Harvard Law Review 932, 957 (1919). (Various permutations of this quote have been incorrectly attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.).
" Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf" dissent by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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