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  1. author: Lord Chief Justice Halisham
  2. content: The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people
  3. think to be wrong. There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will
  4. applaud. All the so-called liberties or rights are things which have to be asserted
  5. against others who claim that if such things are to be allowed their own rights
  6. are infringed or their own liberties threatened. This is always true, even when
  7. we speak of the freedom to worship, of the right of free speech or association,
  8. or of public assembly. If we are to allow freedoms at all there will constantly
  9. be complaints that either the liberty itself or the way in which it is exercised
  10. is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom, these complaints will often be
  11. justified. There is no way of having a free society in which there is not abuse.
  12. Abuse is the very hallmark of liberty.
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